Son of Hamas

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I recently finished reading Mosab Hassan Yousef’s book, Son of Hamas.  I subscribe to Joel Rosenberg’s blog and was a reference to the book from him.  I’ve never really thought too much about the Israel-Palestine conflict.  I have to say that this book gave me an interesting perspective and insight that I really appreciate.  Joel actually wrote a review of this book out on Amazon entitled, “Love your Enemies?  How the Son of the Founder of Hamas went from Jihad to Jesus”.  Of course I had to read the review after that title.  Naturally, I had to read the book after I read Joel’s review!

Overall, the things I found most interesting was the intrigue as Mosab becomes a spy for the Israeli Intelligence service.  The challenges he faced trying to do the right thing and to keep his father safe while keeping his true loyalties concealed are just so interesting.  I wonder how much more of the story has been hidden.  I’d like to have more of the gritty details that I felt he glossed over perhaps in the interest of his personal security or Israeli security – dunno.  It just feels like there is more to this story than he is saying.

That being said, I still found this to be a very interesting book.  It becomes clear that neither the Israeli nor the Palestinians are totally the good guys or totally the bad guys.  They both do evil.  They both have their perspectives.  All in all – interesting story of a man’s life and God’s hand in it.