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> On Aug 4, 2025, at 9:14 AM, Justin Zalkin
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> Hello —
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> I see some exceptionally bright people on this thread who have differing perspectives. For the folks who think Israel should immediately declare a ceasefire, what are your perspectives on Hamas? And what do you anticipate Hamas would most likely do with a ceasefire period?
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> Hopefully everyone views famine among Gazans as horrible (regardless of who is to blame). My fear is that a cessation of hostilities that leaves Hamas governing would not lead to a good long term outcome for Gazans (or Israelis). I am curious what others who have studied the conflict in more detail think would most likely happen if Hamas were to continue governing.
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> All the Best,
> Justin
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>> On Aug 1, 2025, at 10:56 AM, Aram James wrote:
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>> Subject: Your Stand on the Ceasefire
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>> Hi Henry,
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>> 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.
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>> Best regards,
>>
>> Avram “ One State Solution” Finkelstein
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>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM, Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
>>> Marty
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>>> Marty,
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>>> 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.
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>>> Best,
>>> Henry
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>>> > On Aug 1, 2025, at 10:19 AM, Martin Wasserman wrote:
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>>> > Henry,
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>>> > 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
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>>> >
>>> >> On Aug 1, 2025, at 10:01 AM, Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
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>>> >> 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:
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>>> >>> 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:
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>>> >>>> Ps
>>> >>>> Upon reflection, accept your critique: cease fire requires repetition , will include in writings this topic until achieved
>>> >>>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.triplehelix.net&c=E,1,89r_z2K2uLLHUVBLW-Ye8xwj7l3JNAeHK6Je-uFfPQ2AhWf1j-aROQsYLgxqRufKavMiq3E-RbHOblTWr8iYTBVMGhnDX9we605xDrtQ-IbcMNex&typo=1
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>>> >>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 11:45 PM, Roberta Ahlquist wrote:
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>>> >>>>> Ok!🌷🦋
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 10:20 PM, Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
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>>> >>>>>> 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
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>>> >>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:49 PM, Roberta Ahlquist wrote:
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>>> >>>>>>> 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
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