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Dear Santa Ana City Council, <br />I write today to share my concerns about the Santa Ana Resolution in Solidarity <br />with the Palestinian People in Support of a Ceasefire to be considered at the <br />December 5, 2023, meeting. <br />The resolution includes inflammatory rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided. It <br />makes a false equivalency between babies taken by terrorists as hostages to <br />prisoners convicted of violent crimes who are not hostages by any definition. It <br />uses inaccurate terms like ethnic cleansing, genocide, and apartheid which are <br />all too often used to justify bigotry towards the Jewish people. <br />Two things can be true: Our hearts break at the loss of innocent life in both <br />Israel and Gaza, and the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. At <br />the same time, we can hold 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 <br />forceful condemnation of Hamas or its terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. It <br />weaponizes the phrase "Never Again" and references the Holocaust in a way <br />that is insulting to the 6 million Jews and countless others who were <br />systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. And most insulting is that the <br />resolution "vows to combat antisemitism" while it actually promotes and <br />amplifies it. <br />I urge you to reject the resolution. <br />Sincerely, <br />Katalin Szeker <br />