Mosab Hassan Yousef detailed his experience growing up in a Hamas leadership family and his eventual decision to work undercover with Israeli intelligence, detailing his complex feelings about his family and beliefs.
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initially this was like one of the I've known you for a while now. I feel like we go away back but this is one of the hardest shows to book. Initially you didn't even want to do it right?
My publisher from their point of view they want me to promote the book which is a product for me if I say something even to one person it's already contributing to consciousness to the world.
I had to die to everything that I knew to my friends to my family to my culture my society my securities all of them everything I knew all the knowledge that I had all of a sudden I had to choose between that all the things that I knew were really useless and I walk into the unknown not knowing what's going to be next what's going to be tomorrow.
the world I knew was relentlessly eroding beginning to reveal another world I was just beginning to understand what the Israelis were teaching me was more logical and more real than anything I had ever heard from my own people
the book is good will link it in the show notes the movie is even more insane and covers a lot that's not in the book holding to that in the show notes as well if you like spy stories if you're interested in this kind of terrorism stuff this is at the top of the heap in many many ways
