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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 10:42 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 9:02 AM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Bonni Pomush <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br />California <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, <br />First, thank you for your service to our community. Raising your hand to say I'll help, getting elected, and now doing the work is a <br />huge feat and I am sincerely grateful for your efforts to strengthen and build community. <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. <br />Our hearts break at the loss of innocent life in both Israel and Gaza, and the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding there. <br />At the same time, we must hold Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent lives in harm's way in pursuit of their <br />nefarious goals. <br />1 <br />