😡😡😡 Two Muslim Nations, Egypt and the UAE, Partner with Israel to Betray Gaza and the Entire Ummah

As the genocide in Gaza enters its third year, multi-billion-dollar deals with Israel reveal a moral collapse that can’t be explained away

For over two years now, since October of 2023, the genocide in Gaza has unfolded in front of the entire world. And as it pushes toward its third year, a new kind of horror is settling in—one that doesn’t come from bombs, but from billion-dollar signatures.

This week I read two reports that made my stomach turn, because they expose something we need to say out loud: while Gaza bleeds, surrounding nations are not just staying silent. They are doing business.

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Now let’s talk about the betrayal.

The deal they hid because they know it’s shameful

A disgusting, but true new report says the United Arab Emirates has been identified as the secret, unnamed buyer behind Elbit Systems’ “largest deal in the company’s history”—a contract valued at $2.3 billion, with deliveries planned over eight years. The outlet cites Intelligence Online as identifying the UAE as the customer.

Elbit Systems is one of the biggest weapons companies in Israel, and it has become one of the clearest corporate engines behind the violence we’ve watched unfold since October of 2023. Elbit doesn’t just “make defense products” in the abstract—it builds the tools of modern surveillance and warfare: drones, targeting and guidance systems, battlefield communications, electronic warfare, and other technologies designed to make killing more efficient and more scalable. And like so many arms manufacturers, it profits most when the world is on fire. When you see headlines about Elbit posting record profits and giant backlogs during this genocide, that’s not an accident—it’s the business model. Every contract is a vote—a decision by a government to keep feeding the machine that has turned Gaza into rubble, and then pretend it’s “just business.”

And here’s the part that should make every person with a functioning conscience stop: the components of the deal are reportedly under a publication ban.

That is not a small detail. That is an admission.

When a weapons deal has to be hidden behind legal secrecy, it’s because everyone involved understands the truth: this is despicable—but they’re doing it anyway.

For over two years, Israel’s war machine has moved through Gaza with a level of destruction that has horrified people across the planet. The moral test here is simple. If you claim to stand for human life, if you claim faith, if you claim Islamic guidance—you don’t feed the machine.

But the UAE is reportedly feeding it with $2.3 billion, spread across nearly a decade, while the world is still counting the dead.

And that should make us ask the hardest question: what does it mean when Muslim leadership can find multi-billion dollars for Israel’s weapons industry, while Palestinian families can’t find clean water?

The deal they bragged about while Gaza starves

The second report came from The New York Times, written by Ephrat Livni and Johnatan Reiss on December 17th, 2025. They reported that Benjamin Netanyahu approved what he called the “largest gas deal” in Israel’s history—$37 billion—granting an export permit so that Chevron and other companies can significantly expand gas deliveries to Egypt, tied to Israel’s Leviathan field.

Netanyahu celebrated it. He said it would strengthen Israel’s regional position and generate massive revenue over time. The article reports an estimated $18 billion in taxes and other revenue for Israel.

So read this slowly: as Gaza enters its third year of genocide, Israel is locking in enormous regional profits, and neighboring governments are signing onto the pipeline.

Egypt is not just “a neighbor.” Egypt controls access to Gaza too. Egypt sees the bodies. Egypt sees the hunger. Egypt sees the displacement. Egypt knows, better than most, what is happening. And yet, here we are—$37 billion in gas.

This isn’t an accident. This is the point.

Genocide doesn’t only happen with bombs. It also happens through diplomatic cover, economic normalization, and financial reward. It happens when mass violence is treated like background noise while contracts get inked and leaders smile for cameras.

“Islamic nations” with no Islamic guidance

I’m going to say this carefully, but I’m going to say it plainly.

Some of these governments love to speak the language of Islam when it’s useful—when it gives legitimacy, when it quiets dissent, when it fills a stadium, when it helps them posture.

But Islam is not a costume. Islam is guidance. And the guidance is clear.

Allah tells us not to cooperate in ظلم and aggression. The Qur’an says, “Do not cooperate in sin and aggression.” (Al-Mā’idah 5:2) And the Prophet ﷺ taught us to help our brother whether he is oppressed or an oppressor—by stopping the oppressor from oppression.

So if a government is helping the oppression continue—through weapons deals, through energy deals, through normalization deals—then no amount of religious branding can wash that clean.

This is not “pragmatism.” This is complicity.

And yes, people will try to argue, “These are just business agreements.” But that’s exactly how moral collapse works: you rename evil as business, you rename betrayal as stability, you rename genocide as “complexity,” and you keep collecting checks while children die.

The truth nobody wants to say out loud

When people ask how Israel has been able to keep this genocide going since October 2023—with the level of destruction the world has watched—there are two answers.

One is the obvious one: Israel has been armed, funded, and protected by the United States and its allies.

The other is the one that should shame the region to its core: Israel has been normalized and enriched by neighboring states while Gaza is still being crushed.

A $2.3 billion arms deal. A $37 billion gas deal. And the genocide pushes onward.

That is not an accident. That is a choice.

If you’re Muslim and you’re reading this, let this be a mirror. If you’re not Muslim and you’re reading this, understand this too: the betrayal isn’t only political—it’s spiritual. These deals are a declaration that money and power are being chosen over the most basic human obligations.

And if the people who claim Islam cannot find the courage to stop feeding a machine accused of genocide, then the rest of us have to raise our voices even louder.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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