I’m going on a blogging hiatus for July/August. Too many other things to do (ailing horses, new dog, visiters, traveling, plain ol fun) to be trying to interpret the news enough to write about it. Plus, I’m so outraged all the time – it’s exhausting.
Today we have one more as the government works to deport a person (Mosab Hassan Yousef) who has saved countless lives, helped Israel, and stood up for what he believed in even as an exmember of Hamas who is also the son of a founder of Hamas.
Please let us do the right thing.
From the Washington Post, Yousef and a friend write:
Mosab has lived in this country for more than two years. We were shocked when, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security opposed his request for political asylum, all the more so when it threatened to deport Mosab in the name of protecting American security. If this decision is upheld, it will signal to the world that America does not stand by those who sacrifice to oppose terrorism. If America wants liberty to prevail in all places, it must not abandon those who share the ideals of freedom.
Gathering human intelligence in the war against terrorism will become impossible if the United States does not protect those who risk their lives on behalf of American values.
Mosab was born a son of Hamas, but he rejected his violent destiny and found the strength to choose a different path. But having left revenge behind, he faces possible deportation as payback for embracing the ideal of loving his enemy.
From the NYPost:
His family publicly disowned him; Hamas has privately promised retribution.
Yousef should be a textbook case for political asylum, but the Obama Department of Homeland Security sees it differently. Its briefs for his deportation allege that he provided “material support” for Hamas — with his book as the main evidence against him.
Yet the DHS’ briefs are laughably incomplete — for example, citing his leading of five Jordanian suicide bombers to a safe house while leaving out the key fact that he was setting a trap for them.
While DHS lawyers insist that Yousef was a Hamas member, Hamas issued a statement: “Mosab was not an active member of Hamas or in any of its military, political or religious branches, or any other body.”
Israeli intelligence agrees. In a sworn statement filed with a federal immigration court, Yousef’s Shin Bet handler said: He “was never a member of any terror group.”
What’s going on?
What IS going on?
Have a good summer.
