Mosab Hassan Yousef — “The Green Prince” — Tells Trump: Stop Playing Both Sides, Confront Hamas’ Sponsors

By The Blogging Hounds Mosab Hassan Yousef — once an insider in Hamas and later known to the world as “The Green Prince” for turning on the terror group and cooperating with Israeli intelligence — delivered a blunt message to President Donald Trump: threats without follow-through are meaningless, and appeasement of Hamas’ state sponsors only…

By The Blogging Hounds

Mosab Hassan Yousef — once an insider in Hamas and later known to the world as “The Green Prince” for turning on the terror group and cooperating with Israeli intelligence — delivered a blunt message to President Donald Trump: threats without follow-through are meaningless, and appeasement of Hamas’ state sponsors only protects the enemy. In a scathing open letter-style appeal, Yousef argues that the real war is not merely against Hamas fighters in Gaza but against the networks, patrons, and ideas that reproduce them — and Washington’s mixed signals are crippling Israel’s ability to finish the job.

“You can’t ‘obliterate’ Hamas while cashing checks from Qatar”
Yousef spares no words. Calling out the transactional geopolitics that shield Hamas, he warns that posturing and public ultimatums collapse into farce when powerful regional actors bankroll and protect the terror machine. “You can’t ‘obliterate’ Hamas while cashing checks from Qatar,” he writes — a line meant to expose the contradiction between rhetorical toughness and diplomatic dependence.

He praises Israel’s humanitarian evacuation of civilians when necessary, calling it “the right move” to clear noncombatants and focus on dismantling militant infrastructure — but he accuses international mediators of turning that humanitarian language into cover for delay and deception. According to Yousef, while Western leaders posture about peace, patrons in Doha and Tehran quietly preserve Hamas’ ability to regroup, blend into civilian populations, and rearm.

Follow the money and the influence — not the headlines
Rather than promising annihilation, Yousef demands hard policy: sever the financial and political lifelines that keep Hamas in power. He urges the U.S. to cut the “bribes” and diplomatic shields that allow Hamas to survive: choke off funding, expose the back channels, and hold accountable the regimes and elites that bankroll the terror. “Once you’re independent, once you’re clean,” he warns, “you’ll see: Hamas and jihad aren’t problems to negotiate — they’re fires to extinguish.”

Importantly, his prescription centers on pressure and accountability — not indiscriminate violence. He calls for targeted action against the patrons and logistical networks that enable terrorism, insisting that confronting state sponsors is the only realistic way to prevent cyclical renewals of violence.

A harsh diagnosis of root causes — and a controversial one
Yousef’s critique goes further, challenging widely held narratives about the origins of the conflict. He traces what he calls the “root” of the recurring violence to a matrix of political myths, identity theft, and ideological movements that — in his words — have perpetuated grievance for generations. He asserts that some Palestinian leaders manipulate historical claims as political cover and that global sympathy can be weaponized to protect violent actors.

Those claims are incendiary and will be labeled provocative by many. Yet the value of Yousef’s voice is his lived experience: born into the leadership he now condemns, he speaks from inside the system he says perpetuates itself. Readers should weigh his insights with that context in mind — the testimony of an insider who defected and has since spent years warning that structural enablers, not merely battlefield targets, sustain terror.

Why this matters for U.S. policy and Israeli strategy
If Yousef is right, America’s strategy is suffering from a structural contradiction: Washington proclaims total support for Israel’s security while maintaining political and economic ties to actors who enable Hamas. That contradiction produces hollow threats and conflicting signals that adversaries exploit. The remedy he proposes is blunt: reduce strategic dependencies, expose covert financing, and pressure patron states to stop enabling terrorism — or else accept that talk of “obliteration” will remain rhetorical theater.

Prophetic and geopolitical instincts
For those who view current events through a prophetic lens, Yousef’s words read like a moral and strategic summons: nations must choose truth and courage over convenience and influence. When states protect violent movements for political or economic gain, they erode the moral and legal order that stabilizes nations. From a prophetic perspective, confronting the networks that feed chaos is as essential as confronting the militants themselves.

A controversial conscience
Mosab Hassan Yousef’s position will not be universally accepted. Some will accuse him of oversimplifying complex histories; others will praise him for naming uncomfortable realities. But regardless of where readers land, his critique forces a vital conversation: if the goal is a lasting peace and real defeat of terror, leaders must confront not only the fighters but the financiers, patrons, and ideologies that sustain them.

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