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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">A New Low: Western Media
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October 29, 2025</div>
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<div><font size="1">Moumen Al-Natour is a member of a Gaza
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<p><strong>By <a
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<blockquote>
<h3><span>Al-Natour is the embodiment of the
archetypal Palestinian collaborator. A man who
portrays himself as a victim uses his own
experience as a Palestinian to whitewash Israeli
genocide.</span></h3>
</blockquote>
<p><span>On October 27, the Washington Post published an
article entitled \u201cThe ceasefire created two Gazas.
One will consume the other.\u201d The author argues that
\u201cMy Gaza is ready for peace\u201d and that \u201cHamas is
trying to destroy it\u201d, promoting the fictitious
Israeli narrative that a utopian Gaza is being made
possible inside the portion of the enclave where the
occupation forces remain, behind the so-called
\u201cYellow Line\u201d.</span></p>
<p><span>The article works to promote the Israeli scheme
in Gaza, which has been openly endorsed by US
officials, and argues in favor of only allowing
reconstruction in the territory operated by Israel,
alongside four primary ISIS-linked militias. </span></p>
<p><span>Evidently, the article makes no mention of the
Israeli armed and controlled Palestinian death
squads \u2013 composed of convicted drug traffickers,
rapists, murderers, ISIS-linked Salafists and aid
looters.</span></p>
<p><span>The piece is purportedly written by one Moumen
al-Natour, which makes even more sense out of why
there is no mention of the ISIS-linked death squads,
because he himself is an armed member of one such
death squad. </span></p>
<p><span>Al-Natour is the embodiment of the archetypal
Palestinian collaborator. A man who portrays himself
as a victim uses his own experience as a Palestinian
to whitewash Israeli genocide and lies about every
detail to turn himself into a \u201cpeace activist\u201d
opposed to armed resistance, while simultaneously
partaking in activities designed to further the
extermination of his own people.</span></p>
<p><span>Take, for example, the following excerpt from
the ISIS-linked death squad collaborator\u2019s alleged
opinion piece:</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><span>\u201cMy Gaza, where I wish to live, exists
between Israel and the yellow line. There, the war
is over and change buzzes in the air. People have
access to food, medicine and electricity. And
other signs of normality are beginning to return,
such as some children going back to school. This
is the Gaza that is waiting with anticipation to
work with a new civil administration and an
international protection force that will keep the
peace as Israel withdraws. Few there speak of
Hamas with any warmth or positivity. For once they
no longer have to.\u201d</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>The territory spoken of here is the area of
Gaza where Israel and four ISIS-linked collaborator
gangs operate; the only civilians there are the
families of the death squads. Any other Palestinians
attempting to reach their homes inside this area are
bombed or gunned down by Israeli forces. </span></p>
<p><span>This territory, on the other side of Israel\u2019s
\u201cYellow Line,\u201d is supposed to be 53% of Gaza, yet in
reality is anywhere between 54-58% of the territory,
due to Israel violating the ceasefire agreement and
operating deeper than agreed upon inside the
supposed withdrawal zone. </span></p>
<p><span>In addition to this, Israel continues its daily
demolition operations against the remaining
Palestinian civilian infrastructure inside the
territory, again in violation of the ceasefire
agreement. The proof of this has been openly
published by Israeli soldiers who post videos of
their demolition work on social media.</span></p>
<p><span>As for access to food, medicine, and
electricity, these are provided to the collaborator
gangs by Israel and are something they have not
lacked during the war. While the people of Gaza were
being starved for three months straight earlier this
year, al-Natour\u2019s militia friends were living lives
of relative luxury. </span></p>
<p><span>Not only were al-Natour\u2019s collaborator gang not
starved, the so-called \u201cPopular Forces\u201d that he is
part of, led by ISIS-linked convicted drug
trafficker Yasser Abu Shabab, were living off of the
supplies they stole from humanitarian aid trucks and
looted from Gaza\u2019s civilian population.</span></p>
<p><span>That is what these militant organizations began
receiving Israeli backing to do \u2013 before being
repurposed, armed and given direct combat missions
by the IDF and Shin Bet \u2013 to rob humanitarian aid
trucks and help enforce Israel\u2019s starvation policy
in Gaza. All of these collaborator gangs were tasked
with involvement in such activities, and many of
their militants continue to loot.</span></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, in the Western corporate media and
its allied Arab publications, al-Natour and his ilk
are portrayed as the peace activists opposed to
Hamas tyranny. For al-Natour\u2019s part, he was one of
the founders of the \u201cWe Want To Live\u201d movement,
which claimed its mission was to improve living
conditions inside the besieged coastal enclave,
described by UN experts as \u201cunlivable\u201d back in 2020.</span></p>
<p><span>As an activist, he was accused of working on
behalf of Israel and spreading a message critical of
Hamas, leading to his arrest. Whether he was a
collaborator back then is under dispute, yet, during
the genocide, he and his anti-Hamas message were
picked up by a media outlet called Jasoor News.</span></p>
<p><span>This media outlet\u2019s editor-in-chief is a
Washington based journalist, named Hadeel Oueis, who
routinely shares anti-Hamas content, including from
the Center for Peace Communications (CPC). Oueis
also expresses support for the current Syrian
leadership of Ahmed al-Shara\u2019a.</span></p>
<p><span>The CPC has received considerable donations
from the Adelson Family Foundation of Israel\u2019s
richest billionaire and top Trump campaign donor,
Miriam Adelson. For Jasoor News\u2019 part, it is
explicitly anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah,
anti-Ansarallah, while publishing pieces in favor of
the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.</span></p>
<h4><b>Western Media Support For ISIS-linked Groups</b></h4>
<p><span>The recent propaganda opinion piece published
by the Washington Post comes as little surprise, as
it was the first Western publication to publish an
interview with ISIS-linked militia leader Yasser Abu
Shabab in November of 2024, when Israel began to
give the aid looting gang a facelift and begin
promoting them as a \u201cgrassroots\u201d anti-Hamas
resistance force. </span></p>
<p><span>In that WP piece, Abu Shabab claims victim
status and that he looted aid out of necessity,
expressing that \u201cHamas has left us with nothing\u201d,
despite his gang of collaborators clearly being the
only group of Gazans who actually did have something
during the genocide. Abu Shabab was used to do
Israel\u2019s bidding, blocking the flow of aid to
civilians and lived under the protection of the
Israeli military while doing so.</span></p>
<p><span>Back in July, the Wall Street Journal then
published an opinion piece entitled \u201cGazans are
finished with Hamas\u201d, which it claimed was written
by Yasser Abu Shabab himself. This was despite the
fact that local sources in Gaza attest to Abu Shabab
not only being unable to write in English, but also
being illiterate and incapable of writing such a
piece in Arabic too.</span></p>
<p><span>According to anonymous sources belonging to
Palestinian journalist Muhammad Shehada, the latest
Washington Post piece was published as explicit
Israeli propaganda. \u201cJournalists told me a
pro-Israeli PR firm in DC is the one that pushed for
this propaganda article to be published,\u201d he wrote
on X [formerly Twitter], adding that \u201cmy sources
said there\u2019s a chance the firm is the one that even
wrote the op-ed\u201d.</span></p>
<p><span>All of this works as part of an Israeli
propaganda campaign aimed at legitimizing the agenda
to create two separate systems of rule in Gaza,
through spreading lies about Hamas and egregiously
exaggerating the brutality of its Security Force
crackdown on collaborators.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel is currently violating the Gaza
ceasefire, not only through its daily bombings and
sniping of civilians, but also through its refusal
to allow sufficient aid to reach the civilian
population. The Israelis had committed to allowing
400 aid trucks into Gaza for the first five days of
the ceasefire before an unlimited amount afterward,
later committing to permit 600 a day to enter, yet
have allowed in a daily average of less than 90.</span></p>
<p><span>The idea, endorsed by the United States, is to
deploy an international invasion force in the Gaza
Strip, which will work alongside the ISIS-linked
death squads to disarm Hamas. Once the Israelis
withhold construction materials and equipment from
entering the populated areas of the territory, where
Hamas remains in power, they will then offer the
civilian population a choice between entering their
version of Gaza under occupation, or remaining where
they are to starve and rot.</span></p>
<p><span>Hamas, along with all the other Palestinian
factions, has agreed to hand Gaza over to an interim
administration of technocratic governance, but will
not disarm until the creation of a Palestinian
State. Israel will not allow for this and instead
uses its collaborators to fight for its own agenda,
depending on its propaganda that is being
prominently spread by its Palestinian media allies
as a means of justifying this approach.</span></p>
<p><span>Inside Gaza, these ISIS-linked gangsters have
no popular support. In fact, the vast preponderance
of the population supports the Security Forces
campaign to stamp out these groups. Despite the
propagandists and militia members claiming that they
are fighting a tyrannical regime that is killing its
own people, the population of Gaza do not believe
this narrative and hence will not support such a
scheme.</span></p>
<p><span>The current round of propaganda against Hamas
mirrors the regime change rhetoric used to overthrow
countless governments in the region, beginning with
Iraq. For example, during the campaign to justify
the overthrow of former Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, Western governments and Washington-based
think-tanks paid Iraqi \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cpeace
activists\u201d to justify the invasion of their own
country. </span></p>
<p><span>Every time, the regime change script is the
same. Except in this case, it is unlikely to succeed
due to the grievances of Gazans with Hamas not
matching those of their regional neighbors. This,
however, will not stop the constant chorus of lies,
exaggerations, and distortions from Washington and
Tel Aviv\u2019s \u201cpeace activists\u201d who turn out to be
armed members of ISIS-linked gangs and \u201cPalestinian
analysts\u201d who just so happen to work for Zionist
think-tanks. </span></p>
<p><span>These individuals speak with the language of
\u201cpeace\u201d, \u201creconciliation,\u201d and \u201cforgiving Israel\u201d,
but are ultimately soulless propagandists who
weaponize their identity to serve an agenda aimed at
destroying their own people. They value nothing more
than status, power, and financial gain. </span></p>
<p><span>In the pro-genocide Western corporate media,
these voices will continue to be elevated and their
claims will never be fact-checked, because these
outlets function as stenographers for the US and
Israeli governments.</span></p>
<p><em>(The Palestine Chronicle)</em></p>
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<p><span><em>\u2013 Robert Inlakesh is a journalist,
writer, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on
the Middle East, specializing in Palestine. He
contributed this article to The Palestine
Chronicle. </em></span></p>
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