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Flores, Dora <br />From: <br />Flores, Gaston <br />Sent: <br />Monday, December 04, 2023 11:00 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: Contact the City Council Submission <br />From: notify@proudcity.com <notify@proudcity.com> <br />Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2023 2:20 PM <br />To: Flores, Gaston <GFlores@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br />Name <br />Jessica McMillin <br />Email <br /> <br />Address <br />California <br />United States <br />Map It <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 />• CouncilmemberJohnathan Ryan Hernandez <br />• Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez <br />Comments or questions <br />I'm writing regarding the Santa Ana Resolution in Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Support of a Ceasefire to be <br />considered at the December 5, 2023, meeting. <br />I grew up in Irvine and have frequented, and continue to frequent, establishments in Santa Ana over the last 35 years. Santa <br />Ana, like Irvine, has always "felt like home" to me. But in reading this resolution that the city is planning to pass, I, as a Jewish <br />woman, feel like an "outsider' and no longer embraced by a place I used to consider home. <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 />At this critical time, ALL reasonable voices, especially those who want to promote Western values of religious freedom, <br />economic opportunity, womens' rights, and technological innovation, should be clearly condemning Hamas. We should all be the <br />"adults in the room" and holding Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent Palestinians in harm's way in pursuit of <br />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 />55 <br />