By Ishaya Ibrahim
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who initially justified the retaliatory bombardments of Gaza after Hamas operatives killed over a 1,000 Israelis, says the slaughter is no longer justifiable.
Israel has launched a relentless punitive attack on Gaza in what observers described as collective punishment, killing at least 10,000 persons, majority of whom were children and women.
In a post on his X handle, Fani-Kayode, said he initially supported the punitive action on Gaza in response to the attack on Israel, but after seeing the mass slaughter, he no longer found the action of Israel justifiable.
Fani-Kayode said the action of Israel was nothing short of genocide.
He said in the post. “How can any sane person enjoy or derive satisfaction from the slaughter that is now taking place in Gaza? It is indefensible. It is unacceptable. It is nothing but state-sponsored terror in its most savage & primitive form. It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide. It is mass murder. It is wickedness. It is barbaric. It is evil. It is the most notorious & graphic example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is unconscionable & it is unjustifiable.”
Fani-Kayode said he initially supported Israel’s action in and acknowledgement of the fact that the Jews have suffered and been persecuted more than any other race in the history of the world.
“Iwas one of the first in my country Nigeria to wholeheartedly condemn the frightful massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7th. Despite that I cannot possibly rationalise what is going on in Gaza in the name of retaliation or the desire to destroy & wipe out Hamas. When you kill innocent & defenceless Palestinian women & children you are not wiping out Hamas but strengthening their cause & giving millions of people all over the world a reason to support their cause & join their ranks. Israel is committing war crimes & crimes against humanity. It is an irrational, unreasonable, emotional & disproportionate response to what was undoubtedly a terrible & unconscionable wrong which may win the battle for the Jewish state but will also inevitably cost them support in much of the civilised world.
