In a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, issued a stark warning to the liberal West.
Yousef, who once belonged to the inner circle of Hamas but later severed ties with the terror group to work covertly with Israeli intelligence, cautioned that the West's growing sympathy for the Palestinian cause is inadvertently fueling a dangerous strategy employed by Hamas. This strategy, he explained, involves using Gaza's civilians as human shields to garner global sympathy.
"A society that sacrifices its own children for pity and power is a death cult and the liberal West is feeding the beast by validating its lies," Yousef warned. He further emphasized that the world seems to have forgotten history, and that the liberal West is aiding in its repetition.
According to Breitbart, Yousef's warning comes at a time when Israel commemorates two significant anniversaries. The first marks 78 years since the U.N. Partition Plan on November 29, 1947, when the Arab world rejected a Jewish state and initiated a war. The second is Israel's national day on November 30, which remembers the expulsion of nearly 900,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries and Iran. This mass exodus occurred after Arab regimes stripped their Jewish populations of citizenship, property, and basic rights following the U.N. vote and Israel's creation.
Yousef, having been raised within Hamas's inner circle, shed light on the terror group's strategy. He stated that their approach was never about land, borders, or "occupation," but rather about generating maximum civilian suffering for political gain and to manipulate Western sentiment. "This is their strategy," he warned. "Put children in harms way, weaponize civilians, endanger both sides, and use the blood to ignite endless war."
He stressed that Hamas is fully aware that it cannot defeat Israel in a conventional war. "They know they cannot win a conventional war," Yousef said. "So they try to defeat Israel in the court of liberal Western opinion by creating as many civilian casualties as possible and then screaming genocide."
Yousef argued that the October 7 massacre, launched from one of the most densely populated areas on earth, was a deliberate act by Hamas. He claimed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar "knew exactly what Israels response would be," and described the attack as a trap designed to generate horrific images from Gaza that could then be weaponized in Western media, campuses, and streets.
"They orchestrated the entire war," Yousef said. "They did it to gain pity points and many in the liberal West fell for it."
Yousef contrasted this with Israel's efforts to minimize civilian casualties, despite facing an enemy that has "adopted the strategy of weaponizing civilians for 77 years." He criticized the "manufactured Palestinian identity," insisting it was invented for political utility and continues to fuel violence that Western progressives now excuse.
"There is no such thing as Palestinian," he said. "There is no such thing as Palestine. These are terms borrowed from the Romans from conquerors. At most, what they call Palestinians are Arabs, and Israel already has two million Arab citizens."
Yousef warned that Western youth, increasingly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, have been shaped by a shallow worldview of "oppressed vs. oppressor," leaving them vulnerable to Hamass propaganda and what he called Palestinian "victim ideology."
"This generation thinks the world is just good guys and bad guys," he said. "And they see Hamas as freedom fighters."
Yousef said that accusing Israel of genocide not only distorts reality, it also empowers Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their broader ideological project far beyond Gaza. "They are feeding the beast," he said. "They are validating barbarism."
He warned that the jihadist project is not limited to rockets and tunnels. "Today we are experiencing financial jihad, diplomatic jihad, and physical jihad," he said. "The liberal West is opening the gates and pretending it is compassion."
Yousef said the global narrative misrepresents the conflict entirely. "This conflict isnt about land," he said. "Those claims of occupation and genocide are lies."
He noted that Israel withdrew from Gaza, "gave the Gazans the opportunity to build a state," and instead they "voted for Hamas," which then used the territory as a launching pad for war.
Yousef closed with a direct appeal to Americans and to the broader liberal West to step back from slogans and examine what they are actually endorsing when they march for "Palestine."
"We need to see things for what they are," he said. "We need to ask: Is their claim to the land legitimate? Is their violence justified? Is Israel really what the world says it is?"
As long as we are not truth-seekers, as long as we act on emotion, not reason, the outcome will be catastrophic, he warned. Listen to those who lived it. If you dont, you will deal with the consequences.
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