From Looting Aid Trucks to Writing Op-Eds: This Is Not Journalism. It’s Narrative Warfare.

They Didn’t Write About Him. They Made Him Write.

Abu Shabab has a byline in The Wall Street Journal.
Imagine that.

A man who can’t put two words together in Arabic suddenly has a polished op-ed in English, laying out a political vision for Gaza. Not only is this laughable—it is disgusting.

Because they know exactly who he is.
Israel knows.  It’s on record.
The media knows. WSJ knows.The reports are public.
This man is a gangster, not a leader. He was jailed for drug trafficking. He was named—by Israeli and International sources—as the one looting humanitarian aid trucks meant for Gaza’s starving population. This is not disputed. It is known. And yet, here he is, rebranded overnight as a reformist voice with perfect English and strategic insight.

They don’t even care that we see through it.
They don’t care that the lie is obvious.
Because this was never meant for us. It was meant for them—their readers, their policymakers, their funders.
To offer a fantasy: that Palestinians are now turning to tribal proxies, to convenient collaborators, to criminals-turned-commentators.
That Gaza is ready to be handed over to warlords with clean press kits.

They didn’t write about him.
They made him write.
They scripted the message, pinned his name to it, and handed it to the world as if it were truth.

We are living the horror of what he is.
They are marketing the illusion of what they want him to be.

It is not just a distortion. It is a crime of narrative. And it is disgusting.