I've read "Son of Hamas" ("Søn af Hamas" in Danish) by Mousab Hassan Yousef the past two days. It's easily read, if one doesn't get too full of hearing about his experiences with death and terror and torture and hate. It's a true story, the author is son of Hassan Yousef, one of the founders of Hamas, and therefore he was a crownprince in Hamas. But he got hired by the Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet, and over 10 years he helped preventing terror attacks planned by Hamas. Over time he also converted from Islam to Christianity.
It was a bit weird to read about some of the places I now know in Jerusalem; the bombing of a pizzaria on the corner of King George and Yafo (downtown Jerusalem with the main shopping streets), the bombing at the Hebrew University (I've seen the memory plate there next to Frank Sinatra building), and also I now can place Ramallah and Kinneret. It happened here and not so long time ago.
I highly recommend everybody to read it. It gives another view on the conflict, as seen from both Palestinians and Israelis on the same time, and might give hope that others like Musab want to end the conflict rather than keeping it going.
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