No words can alter the facts. Nations around the globe are rejecting
Israel’s claims and its portrayal as a victim in this ongoing genocide. I’m
not swayed by the tired talking points of pro-Israel lobbyists; they don’t
resonate with me, and deep down, you don’t believe them either. You are
part of a Zionist cult that perpetuates these lies.
Avram “ Zionists Stop Your Lies” Finkelstein
On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM Martin Wasserman
wrote:
> Aram,
>
>
> Its true that the war started as a premeditated and deliberate attempt to
> exterminate an entire people. But it was Hamas that was trying to
> exterminate the Jews, and after October 7, they promised to have many more
> October 7s until Israel was totally destroyed.
>
>
> Also, Hamas was not as weak as you claim them to be. They were very well
> armed, had trained for this war for years, and were willing any maybe even
> eager to die as martyrs. They had highly fortified defensive positions with
> their massive tunnel network paid for with stolen international aid funds
> that were intended to benefit the Gazan people, and they had the element of
> surprise. What they underestimated was Israels resilience and speed of
> recovery in the face of existential danger. They also expected Hezbollah,
> with its massive missile arsenal, to join the fight from the north, which
> didnt happen, and they expected Iran to more actively engage, which didnt
> happen either.
>
>
> Ultimately, this is a war between two radically different views of life,
> between Israel and its supporters who self-define as revering life, and
> between Hamas and its supporters who self-define as revering death. These
> two cultures cannot coexist peacefully side-by-side, but will continue to
> fight until one succeeds in driving out the other.
>
>
> The way may be long and difficult, but I fully expect Israel to prevail in
> this struggle, and when they do, the world will be a much better place
> because of it.
>
>
> Martin Wasserman
>
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2025, at 10:02 PM, Aram James wrote:
>
> This is not a war but a slaughter a genocide a holocaust, death by mass
> starvation. A premeditated and deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire
> people. War crime after war crime after war crime.
>
> War suggests some parity in military power. Israel is armed by the most
> powerful military on the planet, the USA. Israel has an army, a navy and
> air-force, and nuclear weapons, and an endless supply of 2000 pound bombs
> .
>
> The Palestinians have only their wits and an enduring spirit of resistance
> to the Israeli occupiers, the settlor colonists who stole the Palestinians
> land and are now determined to destroy their entire culture.
>
> More and more nations are recognizing Palestine as an independent
> sovereign nation while calling out Israel as war criminals. Israel has
> become a pariah state a dying and soon dead nation. All people of moral
> conscience must seek the elimination of the terroist state of Israel.
>
> Avram “One State Solution” Finkelstein
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> On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM Martin Wasserman
> wrote:
>
>> There seem to be two types of people pushing for an Israeli cease-fire in
>> Gaza: those who actively want Israel to lose the war and would like to see
>> it ultimately destroyed, and those who dont necessarily hate Israel, but
>> are troubled by the sight of suffering civilians. I can empathize with the
>> latter view. I dont like seeing pictures of suffering people either.
>> However, Israel didnt seek this war and it didnt want this war. But now
>> that war has been forced upon it, it has no alternative but to win it.
>>
>> A unilateral Israeli cease-fire would give Hamas time to regroup and
>> rearm, and continue planning future atrocities, which would result in more
>> deaths, more Israeli retaliation and more suffering. Those who claim to
>> care deeply about the people of Gaza should not be demanding that Israel
>> stop fighting, but should be demanding that Israel step up the fighting
>> until Hamas is totally destroyed. The biggest obstacle to providing for the
>> humanitarian needs of the Gazans is Hamas itself. It’s only when they’re
>> gone that those needs can be properly addressed.
>>
>> Martin Wasserman
>>
>>
>> *From:* Roberta Ahlquist
>> *Date:* August 31, 2025 at 12:22:24 PM PDT
>> *To:* Aram James
>> *Cc:* Henry Etzkowitz , Julie Lythcott-Haims <
>> Julie.LythcottHaims@cityofpaloalto.org>, George for Palo Alto <
>> georgeforpaloalto@gmail.com>, Office of the Provost ,
>> Brian Good , Roseline Rasolovoahangy <
>> emma-roseline@stanfordalumni.org>, City Council <
>> city.council@cityofpaloalto.org>, WILPF Peninsula Palo Alto <
>> wilpf.peninsula.paloalto@gmail.com>, Keith Reckdahl ,
>> Vicki Veenker , rabeh morrar <
>> rabehmorrar@gmail.com>, Aline Figlioli ,
>> Roberta Ahlquist , jessica@speiser.net,
>> editor@paweekly.com, Gennady Sheyner ,
>> city.council@gilroy.org, CityCouncil ,
>> city.council@menlopark.gov, City Clerk ,
>> Andrew Binder , Rowena Chiu <
>> rowena.chiu@gmail.com>, Nicole Chiu-Wang ,
>> Pat M , vramirez@redwoodcity.org, Vara
>> Ramakrishnan , Raymond Goins , Liz
>> Kniss , Liz Gardner ,
>> Sheree Roth , Lori Meyers ,
>> Palo Alto Free Press , Lotus Fong <
>> lyfong@pacbell.net>, assemblymember.berman@assembly.ca.gov, Josh Becker <
>> becker.josh@gmail.com>, Jeff Conrad , Jeff Rosen <
>> info@jeffrosen.org>, Jay Boyarsky ,
>> board@pausd.org, board@valleywater.org, BoardOperations <
>> BoardOperations@cob.sccgov.org>, Betsy Nash ,
>> dcombs@menlopark.gov, GRP-City Council , PD
>> Kristina Bell , Rob Baker ,
>> Rose Lynn , Yusra Hussain <
>> Yusrahussainmd@gmail.com>, Carla Torres ,
>> Brandon Pho , Jennifer Morrow San José
>> Spotlight , Bill Newell <
>> billnewell2850@gmail.com>, Zahra Billoo , Mila Zelkha <
>> mila.zelkha@gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* *Re: Call To Action*
>>
>> 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
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.triplehelix.net&c=E,1,z030812KkJXuoJzRDaDL4Y4SwOHvlo4YxE3loRIzMXmjWJyAbNLyTmpMWh51VQFwsDbXD44X4h49k_7rowd5NG5wvDRsBFqo3YRl3zbYaPyMKQLoXVpTohWZWWo,&typo=1
>>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2025, at 6:31 PM, Aram James wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fWww.triplehelix.net&c=E,1,U1xPIH6tn_-bzGGVjVjL-sOBGs40NJdpE7Nxj9R_oZoRP9mH20ZxQDkBEZ6_d4kJ04dglbksDS29QaLfvWkCFsoNq63eaU_SHvOY-HanhFJlJjcM&typo=1
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 30, 2025, at 3:17 PM, Aram James wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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