An Open Letter to Donald Trump By Femi Fani-Kayode
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 & sulphurous rubble & into an ocean of foul, rotting, verminous body parts.
You did this by supplying Israel with the most deadly modern weapons including 2, 000 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.
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You crushed them in body, spirit & soul.
Yet your nation was still not done.
Horror of the civilized world
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 2, 000 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.”
In conclusion you said “the Palestinians would have no right to return when they leave”.
As Ambassador A. M. Shawesh, the Palestinian Ambassador to India, rightly said, ”When a real estate developer rules the world, no one will be spared, everyone will follow”.
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 have outrightly 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 and Arabs that feel this way: His Eminence Pope Francis and the majority of Christians throughout the world do as well.
and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant & refugee brothers & sisters.”
‘Making America Great Again’ does not mean destroying the aspirations of others & does not give you the right to intimidate, threaten, subjugate & conquer the world!
You would do well to remember that it was the collective prayers of millions to God that delivered you from the assassin’s bullet on two separate occasions, that stopped you from being sent to jail & that got you to where you are today.
Those same prayers will bring you to your knees if you refuse to change course.
May God guide you.
•Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism and a former Minister of Aviation
