Hi Henry,
Well said: I can add only a few comments.
Like you I am a proud Jewish man. Will turn 77, god willing, on December
14. I want to conduct a non-courtroom examination or cross-examination of
your friend and fellow Jew, Palo Alto City Council Member Keith Reckdahl.
As you know Keith has worked for decades at Lockheed Martin as an aerospace
engineer. I have reached out to Keith before he was on city council and
during his time on the city council with no success.
I am particularly interested in determining if Keith has ever worked
professionally on fighter jets or other weapons systems that have been
given to or sold to Israel to be used in the in the decades-long genocide
and ethic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Let me be clear, I have zero evidence of any complicity by Keith at this
point. Is Keith complicit in the genocide of Palestinians as a result of
his work at LM?
Unless we can talk to Keith we may never know the truth. Henry, do your
best to encourage Keith to speak to both of us on the genocide ethic
cleansing issue.
BTW: I have posted a piece from today’s *Democracy Now, see directly below,
on how Lockheed Martin, and other war profiteers both enable and profit
from Israel’s genocide in Gaza. *
*Avram Finkelstein aka Aram *
Amnesty Int’l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amnesty_international
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM Henry Etzkowitz wrote:
> Interim proposal to “cease fire”
> Palo Alto, home of Lockheed Martin, must take a stand on how the products
> of our firms are utilized. City Council may recommend ethical practices as
> an initial step to binding requirements.
>
> We are complicit in what happens within our borders. We have environmental
> laws to regulate production processes.(cf Tesla Lye Pour San Jose superior
> court, upcoming 10am one October)
>
> At yesterday’s meeting, the Oak Creek/Channing House meet-up recalled
> President Eisenhower’ s warning about the dangers of a persisting
> military-industrial complex. We are seeing his prescient, far seeing
> extrapolation, without paying appropriate attention.
>
> Eisenhower warned; Herbert Hoover, Palo Alto’s favorite son took action,
> organizing the response to famine across warring nations boundaries during
> the Great War. We must find ways to carry his exemplary practice into the
> present. Neighbors for Economic and Social Justice (NESJ) calls upon the
> City Council to form a joint study committee with NESJ and Stanford
> University’s Hoover Institute re above and design a strategy to address,
> moving bottom up, local to global; entrepreneurially.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Henry Etzkowitz
> Quondam Sociology Department
> Stanford University
> www.triplehelix.net
