Press Release
Gas Deal with the Jewish Entity
Buying Our Stolen Wealth and Supporting Our Usurping Enemy
In a new scene embodying the extent of decline and dependency reached by the Egyptian regime, the signing of a huge deal with the Jewish entity was announced to import natural gas from the Leviathan field in the occupied Palestinian territories, worth approximately $35 billion, extending until 2040, under which the Jewish entity exports about 130 billion cubic meters of gas to Egypt, used to meet the needs of the local market and for export through Egyptian liquefaction plants. This deal has been promoted as "enhancing energy security," while in reality it is a betrayal of the nation, a waste of its wealth, allegiance to its enemy, and support for its ailing economy.
In light of the economic and political crises facing the Jewish entity, this deal constitutes a financial and strategic lifeline for it, generating billions of dollars annually, providing it with a reliable export partner, and enabling it to impose itself as a central player in the regional energy market. In contrast, the Egyptian people are dragged into more subservience, humiliation, and poverty, as this deal only brings them debt, taxes, and price increases, at a time when they are suffering from electricity and gas shortages and the high cost of living.
Anyone looking at this deal does not need much scrutiny to realize the serious paradox: Egypt, the Islamic country, buys gas from an entity that usurps the blessed land! What is even worse is that the Leviathan field and other fields were never the right of the Jews, but were granted to them within invalid maritime border demarcation agreements concluded by the Egyptian regime in 2018, in which it gave up the nation's right to its economic waters, thus proving its full partnership in the crime.
The Egyptian regime is marketing this deal as an economic success, while in reality it is submission, surrender, and economic dependence on a usurping enemy. This deal is a direct result of the maritime border demarcation agreements signed by the regime with the Jewish entity, Cyprus, and Greece, which led to its ceding vast areas of its economic waters in favor of the Jews. These agreements are religiously invalid because they represent a concession of land, water, and wealth to the Jews, and an explicit recognition of their entity.
This gas deal is a new crime added to the regime's record of neglecting the blessed land and its people and cooperating with the usurping entity.
O soldiers of Kinana: Wake up before history records that you were false witnesses to the greatest betrayal the nation has known in its modern era. Wake up, for God will ask you individually about a weapon that was not raised, about a voice that was not heard, and about a nation that is being slaughtered before your eyes, and you did not support it. Know that the hour of reckoning is coming, and that God is not deceived by slogans, nor is He fooled by names. So do not be froth like the froth of the flood, and do not be guards of falsehood that stabs your religion from behind, then raises banners of falsehood above you... We ask God to guide you to the truth and grant you to follow it.
﴿O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them﴾
The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Egypt