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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 5:51 PM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Paul Groner <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br /> <br />Santa Ana, California 92706 <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 and Mayor and mayor Pro-Tem, <br />I write today 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, meeting. <br />The resolution includes inflammatory rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided. It makes a false equivalency between babies taken <br />by terrorists as hostages to prisoners convicted of violent crimes who are not hostages by any definition. It uses inaccurate terms <br />like ethnic cleansing, genocide, and apartheid which are all too often used to justify bigotry towards the Jewish people. It <br />supports terrorists who raped, murdered, tortured, on one day October 7 over 1200 innicent civilians and took hostages of <br />people including babies, children, womenb, aged. it brings out waves of prejudice and hate against people just because of their <br />Jewish faith. this incxludes many citizens ofSanta Ana who have made many good contributions to our city. To many citizens of <br />many generations who have done generations of good for this city and do not deserve this horrid discriminatory act against <br />them, basically a city backed act of terrorism. <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 Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent Palestinians in <br />