Mosab Hassan Yousef, known as the Green Prince, accused Donald Trump of undermining Israeli military campaigns and then blaming Israel for the outcome. In a sharply worded message published after Trump criticized Israel's operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Yousef wrote, “You cannot sabotage the campaign and then blame Israel for the results.”
Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, spent about a decade as an undercover Shin Bet asset. After leaving that work, he converted to Christianity, moved to the United States, and wrote the book “Son of Hamas.” He said his unusual background has made him one of Hamas's fiercest critics and a distinctive voice in discussions of Gaza and Israel.
He argued that whenever Israel gained battlefield momentum in Gaza, Lebanon, or against Iran, Trump personally intervened and stopped the campaign at the worst possible moment. According to Yousef, American interference prevented Israel from turning operational gains into strategic victory. He praised the pager operation against Hezbollah as “a masterpiece of modern warfare,” and said Israel's campaign against Iran had stunned the regime after senior figures were killed and its systems badly damaged, but it was halted before sustained pressure could produce a decisive result.
Yousef said Trump had been briefed that defeating Iran would require at least a year of continuous pressure, but demanded quick results, changed the original plan, and turned what could have ended in strategic victory into strategic defeat. “Now, after you signed a humiliating deal that buried the nuclear threat instead of eliminating it, you are accusing Israel of taking too long and of the way it fights,” he wrote. He also rejected claims about civilian harm in Lebanon, saying Hezbollah bears responsibility because it operates from populated areas and uses civilians as human shields. Trump made his remarks at the G7 summit, saying Israel has been fighting Hezbollah too long, too many people have been killed, criticizing strikes on apartment buildings, and urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act more responsibly in Lebanon.
