Subject: Your Stand on the Ceasefire
Hi Henry,
You were truly the only candidate for the Palo Alto City Council in 2024,
out of nine total candidates, who had the courage to unequivocally call for
a ceasefire. I attended the council meeting that night and remember your
speech very well.
Best regards,
Avram “ One State Solution” Finkelstein
On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM, Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
> Marty
>
> Marty,
>
> Express away but the killing and starvation policy must stop, under UN
> armed supervision, of course. Who is to be the Ike who said, I will go to
> Korea during he 1952 election campaign, achieved a cease fire, that holds
> to this day, despite lack of a formal peace treaty.
>
> Best,
> Henry
>
> > On Aug 1, 2025, at 10:19 AM, Martin Wasserman
> wrote:
> >
> > Henry,
> >
> > One of my objections to “ceasefire now” is that it places all of the
> onus on Israel and demands nothing of Hamas, and gives Hamas breathing
> space to regroup and rearm so they can continue their policy of killing
> Jews.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
> >> On Aug 1, 2025, at 10:01 AM, Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Marty
> >>
> >> I have expressed my agreement in heron to Council on their general
> policy of excluding foreign policy issues However, like the attorney for
> the holocaust victim who successfully asked the US Supreme for a narrow
> exception to the statute of limitations, I argued to Council that there are
> certain issues that it behooves as as Palo Alto citizens to take a stand:
> Gaza cease fire now, is one! See council video of several months ago for my
> full statement.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Hillel
> >>> On Aug 1, 2025, at 9:43 AM, Martin Wasserman
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Theres no legitimate reason for city government to weigh in on
> foreign policy issues, especially in highly volatile areas like the Middle
> East. Such controversial resolutions change nothing in the Middle East and
> only promote conflict at home. Unless of course the goal is precisely to
> create conflict at home.
> >>>
> >>> Martin Wasserman
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Aug 1, 2025, at 2:14 AM, Henry Etzkowitz
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Ps
> >>>> Upon reflection, accept your critique: cease fire requires repetition
> , will include in writings this topic until achieved
> >>>> www.triplehelix.net
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 11:45 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <
> finnroberta@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ok!🌷🦋
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 10:20 PM, Henry Etzkowitz
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Agree with cease fire, and permanent treaty above and beyond. Aram,
> who was present, can assure you that I requested each council member
> individually and publicly to commit Palo Alto to call for cease fire.
> Video supposed to be available at city website.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best
> >>>>>> Henry
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:49 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <
> finnroberta@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Yes- and how about a ceasefire? Less abstract, more
> concrete...?🐸🦋
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 1:08 PM, Henry Etzkowitz
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Somewhere in Israel’s Governmental bureaucracy under an innocuous
> title, a “collective Eichmann” is at work meticulously designing the “crime
> of the new century” the systematic destruction the civil institutional
> environment of universities, businesses, and housing, with the intent and
> objective of atomizing the citizens of GAZA Palestine into a controllable
> mass. Attendant nutrition deprivation is an overlay on institutional and
> organizational deprivation, conducted in Mediterranean sunlight and
> international, if not Israeli, full media gaze. Rather than the inside
> pages of the New York Times where v Germany’s 20th century holocaust was
> relegated, this rolling, escalating genocide is on the front pages of the
> newspaper of record where all news that fits is published, sometimes
> ironically overshadowed by food recipes in the Internet Edition. The
> international community, led by Europe where the Holocaust was originated,
> collaborated, condoned and only sometimes resisted in the last century,
> must mitigate its indelible moral stain by heading off the Netenyahu
> regime’s scheme. Only a Jewish state founded on the ashes of the holocaust
> could have been given such leeway, not to forget Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Who
> will be the future Hannah Arendt to chronicle the ubiquity of evil?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Sincerely
> >>>>>>>> Henry Etzkowitz
> >>>>>>>> Distinguished Fellow
> >>>>>>>> University of London, Birkbeck College, Centre for Innovation
> Management Research
> >>>>>>>> Co-founder, Neighbors for Environmental and Social Justice, 644
> Menlo Avenue, Menlo Park CA 94025
> >>>>>>>> RE Henry Etzkowitz et al vs Elon Musk et al Case number
> 24CV450485 Superior Court of California County of California, Downtown
> Courthouse 191 Notth First Street, San Jose CA 95113 civil division
> >>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
