MembersA Former Terrorist’s Plea to Stop Supporting the Palestinians

The following is a letter we received and translated written by Mohammed Massad, a former Palestinian terrorist-turned-peace activist who we have previously interviewed and hosted in a live discussion with Israel Today readers.

To my brothers in every country of the world. In the past, I was a terrorist. My name is Mohammed Arif Massad, from Burkin village, in the Jenin district of Palestine. I was born in 1975, I enlisted in a terror group when I was 13, and from that age fought fiercely against Israel.

Unfortunately, I soon discovered that the Palestinian leadership does not want freedom and does not want peace, because they profit from the war and the destruction that we experience all around us. They like to attract the attention of the free and good people in the world as the death toll among our people increases, so that the world will provide them with enormous amounts of assistance whenever the images of destruction in...