- Safiu Kehinde
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has written an open letter to the United States President, Donald Trump, over the killings in Gaza.
Fani-Kayode, in the letter issued and shared on his X handle on Sunday, accused the United States of subjecting the Palestinians living in the war torn region to mass murder and genocide through the provision of arms and support to the Israeli Force.
He alleged that the US supplied 2000 pound bombs to Israel to carry out what he described as barbaric slaughter in modern history.
The former Minister also slammed Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and displace 1.6 million dwellers of the city.
This, according to Fani-Kayode, showed Trump’s lack of empathy to the plight of Gazans.
“Mr. President, over the last 15 months your country America has subjected the people of Gaza to mass murder, genocide & ethnic cleansing.
“You armed, assisted & enabled the State of Israel to murder, by your own admission, hundreds of thousands of innocent Gazan civilians the vast majority of whom were women & children.
“You turned their once beautiful country into a poisonous, stinking, uninhabitable, burnt flesh-filled, rodent-infested sea of landmines & sulphurus rubble & into an ocean of foul, rotting, verminous body parts.
“You did this by supplying Israel with the most deadly modern weapons including 2000 pound bombs which they unleashed on a weak, impoverished & defenceless civilian population in what can only be described as the most barbaric slaughter in modern history. You crushed them in body, spirit & soul.
“Yet your nation was still not done. As soon as you were sworn into office, to the horror of the civilised world, you declared your insidious intention to displace the 1.6 million Gazans that are still left alive (there were originally 2.5 million) & take over their land in order to develop it into a “prime piece of real estate” & a “beautiful holiday resort” for rich Americans!
“These are the homes & ancestral land of the Palestinian people who have been living there for over 2000 years.
“This is the land in which their loved ones & families have been caged, butchered & buried by your murderous Zionist friends for the last 76 years.
“This is the place in which millions of them have fought & died for the last seven decades in order to preserve their honor, dignity, heritage, history & identity & leave something for generations of their children yet unborn.
“You went further by publicly stating that you were “committed to owning Gaza” & that “we will let other countries develop parts of it: it will be beautiful. People can come from all over the world to live there.” Fani-Kayode wrote.
He further accused Trump of lack of humanity and empathy as against nations- including Nigeria that had strongly expressed their solidarity and concern with the plight of Gazans.
“In conclusion you said “the Palestinians would have no right to return when they leave”.
“As Amb. A. M. Shawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to India said,
“When a real estate developer rules the world no one will be spared, everyone will follow”.
“Your lack of empathy for the plight of the women & children of Gaza is appalling.
“Your inability to feel their pain & acknowledge their tears betrays the fact that you lack compassion. You not only want to take the little that is left of it from them but you also want to send the 1.6 million Gazans that have been left alive to Egypt & Jordan (both of whom rejected the proposal) & turn their homeland into a holiday spot filled with American hotels, American holiday homes, American escorts & American casinos.
“You fail to appreciate the fact that to stand with Gaza is to stand with humanity. This sentiment is shared by the majority of nations including Ireland, South Africa, Brazil, China, Russia, Iran & Spain who have taken the lead in this cause.
“It is not only the Muslims & Arabs that feel this way: Pope Francis and the majority of Christians throughout the world do as well. Killing innocent women & children, subjecting them to mass murder, ethnic cleansing & genocide & forcefully displacing them & taking over their land cannot be justified under ANY circumstances.
“Is this so difficult to comprehend? You will recall that VP Kashim Shettima eloquently stated the unassailable position of the Nigerian people when he said the following at UNGA:
“Today we are all witnesses to the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza & other Palestinian Territories. Justice is antithetical to revenge. Freedom is an inalienable right & a natural entitlement that cannot be denied to any people. The Palestinian people deserve their independence.
“They deserve to have a home of their own on territories already recognised by this very Assembly & by international law which is being routinely ignored.“ he added.