Urgent Message to President Trump: Protect the Flotilla

September 24, 2025

To President Donald Trump:

Members of Congress and people all around the country are demanding that you tell Netanyahu not to harm the very peaceful humanitarian flotilla of about 45 little ships, already under Israeli drone harassment on the high seas, on its way to Gaza with food, medicine, infant formula, diapers and other necessities for what you earlier described as the starving children in Gaza. You are meeting with Netanyahu at the White House next week and can convey this message.

As far as the mass slaughter, starvation and blocking of U.S.-funded humanitarian aid trucks is concerned, everybody agrees that you are the one person who can stop it with “one phone call.” Yet week after week since March, when Netanyahu broke the ceasefire that you took credit for, you have only displayed an inexplicable and cowardly fear of Netanyahu leading to widespread rumors in Israel and the United States that he has a dossier on you. To repeat, “one phone call” from you and the children, mothers and fathers in Gaza can experience a ceasefire and immediate humanitarian aid on the border from thousands of waiting trucks paid for by American taxpayers.

What are you waiting for?

Regards,

Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein