{"id":301798,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301798"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:12:15","slug":"open-letter-to-pres-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/open-letter-to-pres-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Pres. Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>27 Aug 2024 &#8211; <\/em>The children of Gaza are being starved and killed. Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza. \u00a0This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for genocide come from high Israeli politicians and generals {see genocidal statement 18 Aug 2025 via Prof Michael de Graff}. This is not a natural disaster; it is mass murder and intentional starvation of Gazans by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The suffering is deep and painful. Please do something to stop such preventable suffering and death of little Palestinian children by Israeli military and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Please President Trump, cut off weapons and diplomatic support and save the Palestinians from ethnic cleansing and genocide, which are being witnessed by the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for what you are doing for peace and every good wishes to you and your family.<br \/>\nPeace,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mairead_maguire.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mairead_maguire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><em>_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mairead_maguire.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-250557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mairead_maguire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of Peace People, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book, The Vision of Peace, (edited by John Dear with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\" ><em>www.wipfandstock.com<\/em><\/a><em>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" ><em>www.peacepeople.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Aug 2024 &#8211; The children of Gaza are being starved and killed. Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza. \u00a0This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":134996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[554,2242,865,1966,88,1777,715,1074,427,119,249,70],"class_list":["post-301798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-children","tag-famine","tag-genocide","tag-hunger","tag-israel","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-massacre","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-palestine","tag-peace","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301841,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301798\/revisions\/301841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}