Why are you Council so paralyzed from ethical actions??!!. Let no more people die. Act NOW!
Roberta Ahlquist
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 31, 2025, at 12:00 PM, Aram James
wrote:
8/31/2025
Rabbi Etzkowitz,
Do Say! Do Say! Will your thoughtful prayers be answered? A call out for courage from our leaders. Will your pleas for a cease-fire resolution and no more genocide be heeded ? Will the leader you have called upon for action be ready in this moment of dire consequences?
“ First Amendment forever ”
Avram
Finkelstein
On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM Henry Etzkowitz < h.etzko@gmail.com> wrote: (mailto:h.etzko@gmail.com)
Be a profile in courage, not an exercise in pusillanimity From vaunted dais intro cease fre now resolution. In your inimitable style explain why you are acting at this juncture. Honour your mother. I knew VSO’s like her in Nigeria. Show inter generational continuity. Make her proud, not ashamed, of your tenure on Council. Follow in the footsteps of fellow Stanfordian, Herbert Hoover. Channel the great Humanitarian. Take care
“Action, not blah,blah “ cf Aline, São Paulo
Henry Etzkowitz www.triplehelix.net (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.triplehelix.net&c=E,1,CvIyyxIkWfF0byj_4mCZ9gHkQdzbzJT1RFhlDXjK0FqdtieG8RWv1l1XXHzwRzuaM3u47Gi2rbuq14t9XJUmV0KUtPzzhIEcqJ06IsOm10KQCADmV0guD4J6&typo=1)
On Aug 30, 2025, at 6:31 PM, Aram James < abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: (mailto:abjpd1@gmail.com)
8/30/2025
HI Henry,
Julies base is all ready in front of her. Per recent polls only 8% of Democrats now support the genocide in Gaza. Its Time for Julie to break from the remainder of the cowards on the Palo Alto City Council and proclaim:
“End The Genocide Now”
Avram Finkelstein
Julie is an eminently practical politician who will not get an inch in front of her base suggest broaden strategy;
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM Henry Etzkowitz < h.etzko@gmail.com> wrote: (mailto:h.etzko@gmail.com)
When her base moves; Julie will speak out like Marjorie, whose evangelical base overcame their ideological predelictions and were able to see human made hunger and respond, giving implicit support to speak out.
Julie is an eminently practical politician who will not get an inch in front of her base suggest broaden strategy; call for public teach in Council Chambers, invite Stanford and other experts to present comparative historical view of starvation strategies with a view to where Gaza does or doesn’t fit.
In the Vietnam crisis, opening of 1969 academic year,
Washington university faculty senate meeting called by Prof Barry commoner, put this strstegy, formulated in a resolution by a junior faculty member, forming university-labor business coalition to implement. Event at St. Louis teamsters hq had Daniel Ellsberg as one of its speakers.
Who will be our “Barry Commoner” Convener? nominate Prof Condaleeza Rice, director Hoover Institute as most appropriate person by dint of academic and public service.
Sincerely
Henry Etzkowitz
Neighbors for Environmental and Social Justice Www.triplehelix.net (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fWww.triplehelix.net&c=E,1,BB6nf5NskbtmYlXhIecUduAUkL-9ZdLKfHNatyRnj_gp45q4yrAfCFq_xIld9Fhj5qyOAu5hQUBt5MWUT7fu0khgsNXNxS5T66Tvgc-UfbmezCV6yg,,&typo=1)
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 30, 2025, at 3:17 PM, Aram James < abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: (mailto:abjpd1@gmail.com)
X,
We have to keep encouraging Julie to speak-out. She did a great job with the ICE issue. I keep pushing Julie and the hapless vice mayor Vicki—to call out the Genocide. Maybe Julie never Vicki who has allowed AIPAC to pull her strings since Oct 7. As I have told Vicki multiple times: your obituary will read clever politician and great lawyer who remained silent as the Israelis continue to commit genocide. A woman with no soul. Its all about Vicki’s climb up the political ladder. Disgusting!
Avram Finkelstein