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November 29, 2023 <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council, <br />I write today to share my concerns about the Santa Ana Resolution in Solidarity with the <br />Palestinian People in Support of a Ceasefire to be considered at the December 6, 2023, meeting. <br />The resolution includes inflammatory rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided. It makes a false <br />equivalency between babies taken by terrorists as hostages to prisoners convicted of violent <br />crimes who are not hostages by any definition. It uses inaccurate terms like ethnic cleansing, <br />genocide, and apartheid which are 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 Israel and Gaza, and <br />the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. At the same time, we can hold Hamas <br />accountable for deliberately putting innocent Palestinians in harm's way in pursuit of their <br />nefarious goals. <br />The proposed ceasefire resolution distorts the facts and does not include a forceful <br />condemnation of Hamas or its terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. It weaponizes the phrase <br />"Never Again" and references the Holocaust in a way that is insulting to the 6 million Jews and <br />countless others who were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. And most insulting is that <br />the resolution "vows to combat antisemitism" while it actually promotes and amplifies it. <br />I urge you to reject the resolution. <br />Sincerely, <br />Phyllis Roberts <br />