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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: Friday, December 01, 2023 9:01 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 8:50 PM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Alexandria Margolis <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br /> <br />Corona Del Mar, California 92625 <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 />As a Jewish resident of Orange County, and frankly as an American who respects our western democratic values, I was horrified <br />to read the proposed anti -Israel resolution slated for a vote at Santa Ana's upcoming city council meeting. To see this so close to <br />home is unsettling. <br />The massacre that occurred on October 7th was a barbaric act of terrorism by Hamas - the undisputed terror group funded by <br />Iran. This atrocity is what our city council should be condemning, if anything. The reactive anti-semitism sweeping the globe by <br />those perversely celebrating such atrocities should be your concern. This 'canary in the coal mine' of escalating extremism at the <br />USA's front door is what I would expect my representatives to attend to. <br />Instead you pile on the anti -Israeli rhetoric of 'ceasefire'. What right do you have to bring this matter to the city of Santa Ana? Do <br />you often call the military strategy of other nations to a local vote? No, only for Israel. Yet they receive none of your compassion. <br />Have you condemned the mutilation, rape, and murder of the 1,400 Israelis, which included women and children? Have you <br />demanded the return of the hostages? Have you acknowledged that hostage return is in flight through Israel honoring a <br />ceasefire that Hamas broke immediately? Of course not - because you care nothing for the human beings who call themselves <br />Israeli or Palestinian. You've simply been sucked into the wave of Jew hate that treats them all as pawns to be able to question <br />the existence of Israel. <br />