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Araiza, Fatima <br />From: Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2023 10:43 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 10:08 AM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Emily Aschbrenner <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br /> <br />Irvine, California 92614 <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 />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 />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 />harm's way in pursuit of their nefarious goals. <br />The proposed ceasefire resolution distorts the facts and does not include a forceful condemnation of Hamas or its terrorist attack <br />on Israel on October 7. It weaponizes the phrase "Never Again" and references the Holocaust in a way that is insulting to the 6 <br />million Jews and countless others who were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. And most insulting is that the <br />resolution "vows to combat antisemitism" while it actually promotes and amplifies it. <br />1 <br />