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Flores, Dora <br />From: <br />Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: <br />Monday, December 04, 2023 10:58 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: Contact the City Council Submission <br />From: notify@proudcity.com <notify@proudcity.com> <br />Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2023 9:53 AM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Michele Shugarman <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br /> <br />California Santa Ana <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 />My heart breaks at the loss of innocent life in both Israel and Gaza, and the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. At <br />the same time, we should hold Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent Palestinians in harm's way in pursuit of their <br />goals. <br />Your resolution includes rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided. Babies were taken by terrorists as hostages. Palestinian <br />prisoners in Israel were convicted of violent crimes. They are not hostages of Israel. You use inaccurate terms like ethnic <br />cleansing, genocide, and apartheid. Thee terms are too often used to justify bigotry towards the Jewish people. <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 />41 <br />