Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi-Fani Kayode and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
The Nigerian Aviation Minister, Femi-Fani Kayode has accused the Israeli prime minister of commiting genocide on the people of Gaza, noting that he has no respect for him because he is the “greatest disaster”.
The minister made this barrage of ‘unfounded’ allegations on his X handle in an open letter to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The open letter read, “My dear Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu (@netanyahu), I trust this open letter meets you well despite the challenges that both you and your nation are presently facing. Femi-Fani Kayode’s open letter to Israeli Prime Minister
“Let me begin by asking you to forgive me for communicating with you through this rather unorthodox medium but I have no other way of reaching you and I fear that a formal, private letter and communication to your office in Tel Aviv may never make it past your Chief of Staff or to your desk.
Kayode told the prime minister that his “numerous operatives, informants and spooks” in Nigeria will best read the letter to him.
“Such is the gravity of unfolding events in the Middle East and your nation Israel that I am constrained to ensure that you hear some home truths, no matter how bitter,” he said.
“And I hope that your Ambassador to our country Nigeria, His Excellency Mr. Micheal Freeman, together with the numerous operatives, informants and spooks that you have planted here will have the good sense, decency, foresight and courage to intimate you of its contents.” Femi-Fani Kayode’s open letter to Israeli Prime Minister local News
He also referred to the Minister’s role in the Israel-Hamas war as “killing spree, genocidal binge, murderous disposition, blind rage & unconscionable desire to wipe out” the Palestinians.
“Of the 26,000 Palestinians that have been killed 10,000 of them were children and 6,400 of them were women whilst 20,000 of them were found above the rubble and 6,000 remain below it,” he said.
“Your killing spree, genocidal binge, murderous disposition, blind rage & unconscionable desire to wipe out, ethnically cleanse and totally exterminate the entire Palestinian race has resulted in the mass murder of 26,000 innocent and defenceless Palestinans (which represents over 1% of the entire population of Gaza), 97 journalists (including Samer Abu Daqqa of Al Jazeera @AJEnglish) and 3 Israeli hostages (whilst they were shirtless, begging for help and waiving a white flag) in Gaza all in just 2 months!
“24,000 Palestinian children have lost one or both parents in Israeli attacks, 18,000 have been injured with some in critical condition and 60% of the people of Gaza are facing starvation.
“300 Palestinian health workers, 134 staffers of the United Nations and a French Foreign Ministry official have been killed and 1.9 million Gazans have been displaced, hundreds of thousands of them are without food, clean water and shelter and 85% of them have been forced to leave their homes.
“288 Palestinians have been killed in the neighbouring occupied West Bank and 4,570 have been detained there since October 7th.
“Over 100,000 buildings have been destroyed in Gaza, thousands of refugees have been bombed and butchered in its refugee camps and a Palestinian woman and her daughter were targeted and shot dead in a Church by an Israeli sniper.
“The latter is a particularly despicable and heinous crime which Pope Francis has described as an act of “terrorism”.”
However, Israel has been in an ‘offensive-defensive’ mood since the Hamas attack on October 7. And not only did this result in loss of properties but also thousands of lives have been claimed by the war on both sides.
Countless truce deals, at some points, have failed, while UN humanitarian aides could not make it into Gaze. Many hostages with Hamas and Israel are yet to be released until ceasefire agreements are met.
Over 50,000 women were reportedly pregnant in Gaza this week, whereas hospitals have been bombarded down with a series of recent airstrikes. There are no hospitals to care for their health and the unborn babies.
With these conditions, many original sympathisers with Israel have begun to go down on its opinion each day given the fact that Gaza continues to suffer more ‘hostile’ treatment by the Israeli Defense Force, authorities reported.
“Your Excellency, permit me to tell you that I have respect for your office but I have no respect for you,” the Nigerian minister also said in the letter.
“You are the greatest disaster that has befallen your nation since its establishment in 1948 and rather than refer to you as Prime Minister of Israel I will henceforth refer to you as the butcher of our age and the child-slayer of Gaza.” Femi-Fani Kayode’s open letter to Israeli Prime Minister local News
“12,000 bombs and 40,000 TONS of bombs have been dropped on Gaza and half of all its buildings have been totally destroyed whilst the Israeli Airforce says it struck at least 12,000 targets across the besieged Palestinian territory BETWEEN OCTOBER 7 TO NOVEMBER 1 ALONE (only God knows how high that number is today) making it one of the most intense bombing campaigns in recent history.
“71% of Gaza’s population are suffering from acute hunger, 98% are suffering from insufficient food consumption and 64% eat grass, fruit and undercooked and expired food stuffs to satisfy their hunger.
Kayode said that it has seemed like the “230 Israeli hostages” with the Palestinian army are not important to the prime minister.
“As Christmas approaches, Bethlehem, the birthplace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, is under siege and you have decided to sacrifice and forsake the remaining 130 Israeli hostages that are still with Hamas.
“Of a truth, it is only those who do not have children that cannot feel the pain of the Palestinian people.”
He also railed against Netanyahu concerning a statement made by the Palestinian former minister of information, quoting his words, “Can you dispute the words of Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a former Minister of Information in Palestine & a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, when he said:
“no human being in Palestine has any value to Israel, whether Muslim or Christian. The whole world now knows how it treats Palestinians & why it is killing journalists that are reporting the truth”.
Kayode also accused the minister of lying about his promise to keep Gaza residents safe from his military operations in northern Gaza.
“All we see in Gaza is death, blood, body fluids & innards spilt, pasted & spread all over the streets & buildings, human limbs that have been shattered, scattered & torn apart, tears, mayhem, carnage, barbarity, cold-blooded mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity, unadulterated cruelty, unrelenting callousness, undiluted perfidy & the most graphic & extreme form of wickedness that has been unleashed against a defenceless and innocent civilian population which comprises primarily of women & children,” he said.
“You told the civilians to flee from Northern Gaza to Southern Gaza where you said they would be safe. But, after over one million of them took you at your word & did so you started bombing Southern Gaza as well killing thousands of them in the process.
“You have killed more civilians in Gaza in two months than the Americans killed civilians in their twenty years of occupation & waging war against the Taliban in Afghanistan!
“Even the mortuaries & cemeteries were not spared & the bodies of the dead were not allowed to rest in peace. Instead they were bombed, blown apart, strewn all over the floor & burial grounds & desecrated.
“Under your leadership Israel has become what the American commentator & presidential candidate, Mr. Cent Uygar, has rightly described it as a “mass assasination factory”.
The Nigerian minister questioned the Israeli prime minister where he has sold his “moral conscience” that he copes with looking at his “wife & children first thing in the morning” every day and then able to “pray to your God”.
“When will your chronic madness & psychotic, insatiable desire for the shedding of Palestinan blood be cured?” he asked in the open letter.
“How do you look at your wife & children first thing in the morning & pray to your God with so much innocent blood on your hands?
“When will your psychopathic obsession for vengeance & the crushing, subjugation, enslavement and elimination of the Palestinian people be abated?”
Kayode rated himself the only most honest and outspoken man to have chosen to “say the bitter truth that few dare to voice” because they are afraid.
“I choose to say the bitter truth that few dare to voice & that truth is that you have lost touch with reality & you are not a leader but rather a bloodthirsty,” the open letter also read.
“You have failed in all your military objectives in Gaza & other than slaughtering thousands of innocent women & children & destroying its infrastructures you have achieved nothing & only confirmed your fascistic disposition & insane cruelty to the world.
“You refuse to see the advantage, the importance & the strategic & moral imperative of a lasting ceasefire & you have rejected the laudable concept, noble vision & equitable objective of a two-state solution.”
Kayode alleged that the Israeli prime minister is on a mission to “completely eliminate Palestinian people“ in order for him to extend his “Zionist” government to the region.
“Your heart’s desire is to totally & completely eliminate & exterminate the Palestinian people, throw them into the dustbin of history, erase all memory of them, drive them into the desert, drown them in the sea, scatter them all over the nations of the earth & engender and facilitate their total & complete extinction all in a futile attempt to establish an ancient biblical Zionist state which shares a border with Egypt in the South & Iran in the North.”
He said that the Israeli prime minister “considers the Jews to be the master race & the chosen people“ the idea of which kayode condemned, adding that it will end in “futile attempt”.
“Which views others, including Muslims, Christians, Arabs, Africans & Asians as sub-human monkeys that have no rights & that must be treated as nothing but field hands, canon fodder, slaves, servants, cheap labour, hewers of the wood & drawers of the water,” he added.
(Femi-Fani Kayode’s open letter to Israeli Prime Minister local News )
