Since the Egyptian regime signed the Camp David Accord in 1979, the Egyptian military establishment has entered a path of dependency and infiltration, moving away from its original doctrine of protecting the Ummah and defending its frontiers against its true enemies, foremost among them the Jews who usurped Palestine. Gradually, this institution has transformed into a restrained tool, subject to the enemy’s conditions, even participating in securing and empowering it through military, security, economic, and consultancy agreements that formed a complete order of Jewish influence, within the army and the state.

The central turning point were the Camp David Accords, which stipulated dividing Sinai into military zones, specifying troop numbers and weapon types, under international supervision. Thus, Sinai was emptied of any real military presence capable of confronting a treacherous lurking enemy. The multinational forces became an open eye in service of the occupying Jewish entity and America. This agreement turned Egypt’s eastern border into a safe front for the Jewish entity after it had always been a constant source of threat to it. This is the essence of the infiltration.

The matter did not stop with the treaty. America, the Jewish entity’s primary ally, reinforced this infiltration through conditional military aid. Each year, the Egyptian army receives about $1.3 billion worth of equipment but on the condition that it never possesses a weapon that breaks the balance with the Jews, and that it remains dependent on American spare parts, training, and logistical support. This arrangement made the army hostage to America, and therefore exposed to the Jews. Its military doctrine was altered through joint exercises like “Bright Star,” whereby “terrorism,” defined according to Western standards, and meaning Islam in its true form, became the enemy, not the attacking Jews or their occupying entity. This was the greatest strategic shift in the mindset of an army that was once described as the “army of the Ummah and its shield.”

Over time, direct channels of communication opened between Egyptian intelligence and Mossad under the pretext of “security coordination” in Sinai and Gaza. Western media, including the New York Times, admitted that the Jewish entity’s aircraft carried out hundreds of strikes inside Sinai, with full Egyptian approval and coordination between 2015 and 2018. In other words, the Egyptian army not only ceased to defend its own land, but also allowed the Jews to use Egyptian airspace against those they call “terrorists,” but who are, in reality, Muslims rejecting Western domination, and the existence of the occupying entity.

The Egyptian army also entered the economic sphere through open or indirect partnerships with companies linked to the Jewish entity, especially in the energy and gas sector. In 2018, Egypt signed an agreement with Jewish companies to supply gas to Egyptian liquefaction plants for re-export, a deal the Hebrew press called the “deal of the century,” granting the entity a strategic outlet for its gas. The army was not far from this, as its companies became involved in liquefaction and transport activities. This means the military institution supposedly protecting the Ummah’s resources became a partner in enabling the occupying Jews to exploit them.

Even more dangerous today is the opening of the file on privatizing army-owned companies such as Wataniya Petroleum, Safi, Silo Foods, and Chill Out. Egypt enlisted international consultancy firms to oversee restructuring and offering, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), among others. These firms operate actively inside the Jewish entity, providing financial and consultancy services, some directly to its government. Thus, the enemy gained access to financial and structural details of army companies, in an unprecedented manner not even seen at the peak of actual occupation. Infiltration is therefore no longer confined to doctrine and armament, but has reached the domestic economic structure of the military establishment.

From Sadat’s era to Sisi’s, the army and official media narrative was reshaped so that the Jewish state is no longer an enemy but a partner in maintaining security. In 2016, Sisi himself declared. “Peace with ‘Israel’ is stable and sustainable, and everyone must strengthen trust with it.” Thus, Egypt’s border with the Jews became its safest front, while the army was directed to fight the sons of the Ummah in Sinai, Libya, and Sudan, under the banner of combating terrorism. This reversal of doctrine can only be explained by a complete infiltration of the Egyptian military mind.

The infiltration of the Egyptian military establishment by the Jews was no accident, nor mere passing relations. It is the outcome of a calculated policy that began with surrender treaties, continued with military dependency on America, expanded into security and intelligence coordination, deepened into economic entanglement, and culminated in privatization of army companies, under consultants rooted within the Jewish entity. This not only alters the nature of the army, but also changes Egypt’s position in the Ummah’s equation.

O People of Egypt: what has happened and continues to happen from surrendering land to the enemy through treaties, to subordinating military and economic decision-making to America, to opening the doors of security coordination with the Jews, to enabling them to access Muslim wealth and institutional secrets through their consultancy firms are all actions forbidden by Sharia. In fact, they are acts of betrayal against Allah (swt), His Messenger (saw), and the believers. Allah (swt) has commanded us to prepare strength against our enemies, and to never take them as allies or advisors, and to safeguard the Ummah’s resources and trusts, never handing them to an occupying enemy or enabling him to dominate Muslims. What is happening today is precisely what Allah (swt) forbade and warned against. These policies are among the gravest forms of negligence and treachery, for they entail abandoning the Shariah obligation of Jihad, empowering the enemy, and aiding him to remain in Muslim lands, whereas the original Shariah obligation is to fight him until the land is purified from his filth.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon you, O people of Egypt, both people and army, to recognize the gravity of what is being done to your army and your country, and to stand as one in the face of this infiltration. What is required of you is not silence or surrender, but to raise your voices and work to abolish these false treaties that secured the enemy and shackled you, and to return the army to its authentic Islamic Aqeedah, such that fighting the Jews is a Shariah obligation, not an option. This must be so until all of Palestine is liberated, and Egypt’s political, military, and economic decisions are freed from dependence on America and the West, all foreign influence and enemy-linked companies are shut out, and the Ummah’s resources are returned to their rightful authority.

O People of Egypt: Islam obligates you to stand before your army and restore it to its true position, the Ummah’s army that fights in the Path of Allah (swt), not an army managed by the enemy’s decisions or interests. Know that the Messenger of Allah (saw) gave you glad tidings regarding the outcome of the struggle with the Jews when he said, «تُقَاتِلُونَ الْيَهُودَ فَتَقْتُلُونَهُمْ، حَتَّى يَقُولَ الْحَجَرُ: يَا مُسْلِمُ، هَذَا يَهُودِيٌّ وَرَائِي فَتَعَالَ فَاقْتُلْهُ»“You will fight the Jews, and you will kill them, until the stone will say: ‘O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.’” (Narrated by Muslim)

This is your glad tidings, this is your path, and this is your Shariah obligation. Do not be deceived by the tables of humiliation or the promises of disbelievers (kuffar). The path to honor is one, to rise upon the basis of Islam, to establish your independent authority, and to restore your army to be a sword against the enemy, not a wall protecting him.

* Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Egypt