The 2014 true story documentary about Masa Yousef entitled “The Green Prince.”
Following is a summary of information from this Telegraph UK article:
Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father had been one of the most powerful founding Hamas leaders, came to eventually work as a spy for Israel’s security service for over a decade and saved countless lives by thwarting terrorist attacks. He wrote memoirs about his life in his book “Son of Hamas,” which has been made into a 2014 feature length documentary entitled “The Green Prince,” and it will soon be made into a live-action feature film.
Yousef grew up hating Israel as many Palestinians do, viewing them as his enemy particularly because his father was imprisoned by them for much of Yousef’s childhood. Yousef was frequently arrested by Israel, and he initially agreed to work for them with the motive of taking revenge on them, but eventually he witnessed how differently each side treats its prisoners which led him to became sympathetic toward Israel, and eventually he started supplying information that saved countless lives on all sides by thwarting Palestinian terrorist attacks.
Yousef says, “I came from the heart of the leadership of Hamas, the heart of the Palestinian decision making. I sat down with Yasser Arafat, with all the top leaders of the Palestinian factions. On the other hand I worked with the Israeli intelligence. I saw the other side. I saw their struggle as well. How many other people in that region see the truth from different sides? It was a crime not to share my story.”
Regarding Palestinian issues, Yousef says, “Pushing for a Palestinian state is a fantasy. It is impossible. Israel is not going to give Palestinians free borders because no Israelis will agree to another holocaust. Why push for things that are not going to take place, and [in doing so] encourage terrorism and violence? In the meantime, instead of dreaming about impossible things, how about we build a Palestinian economy, schools and infrastructure? Let’s try to avoid Hamas, let Israel finish the job of fighting them, and leave the Palestinian people out of this problem. To go and push for a Palestinian state right now – this is playing with fire.”
Speaking about an axe attack that happened in a synagogue in Jerusalem the week he was interviewed, he said: “We had four righteous people going to a synagogue, a house of worship. They got killed. And you see the Jordanian parliament are praising the killers, praying for them, and encouraging people to follow their footsteps. This is the Arab culture: they hate Israel for religious reasons, for ideological reasons. This needs to stop; they need to wake up from their delusion.”