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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: Friday, December 01, 2023 8:54 AM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: FW: Contact the City Council Submission <br />From: notify@proudcity.com <notify@proudcity.com> <br />Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 4:56 PM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Dennis Linson <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br /> <br />ALISO VIEJO, California 92656 <br />United States <br />Map It <br />Phone <br />( <br />Who is this message for? <br />• Mayor Valerie Amezcua <br />• Mayor Pro Tern Jessie Lopez <br />• Councilmember Thai Viet Phan <br />• Councilmember David Penaloza <br />• Councilmember Phil Bacerra <br />• Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez <br />• Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez <br />Comments or questions <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council leaders and members, <br />I write to you to share my concerns about the Santa Ana Resolution in Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Support of a <br />Ceasefire to be considered at the December 5, 2023 council meeting. <br />The resolution includes inflammatory rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided: <br />-The text makes a false equivalency between babies abducted by terrorists as hostages and equates them to actual prisoners <br />convicted of violent crimes who are not hostages by any definition. <br />-The text uses inaccurate terms like ethnic cleansing, genocide, and apartheid which are all too often used to justify bigotry <br />towards the Jewish people. <br />Two things can be true: Our hearts break at the loss of innocent life in both Israel and Gaza, and the worsening humanitarian <br />crisis unfolding in Gaza. At the same time, we can hold the terror entity of Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent <br />Palestinians in harm's way in pursuit of their nefarious goals. <br />The proposed ceasefire resolution distorts the facts and does not include a forceful condemnation of Hamas or its terrorist attack <br />1 <br />