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December 4, 2023 <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council, <br />We write today to share our concerns about the Santa Ana Resolution in <br />Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Support of a Ceasefire to be considered <br />at the December 5, 2023, meeting. <br />The resolution includes inflammatory rhetoric that is divisive and one-sided. It <br />makes a false equivalency between babies taken by terrorists as hostages to <br />prisoners convicted of violent crimes who are not hostages by any definition. It <br />uses inaccurate terms like ethnic cleansing, genocide, and apartheid which are all <br />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 <br />and Gaza, and the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. At the same <br />time, we can hold Hamas accountable for deliberately putting innocent <br />Palestinians in harm's way in pursuit of their nefarious goals. <br />The proposed ceasefire resolution distorts the facts and does not include a <br />forceful condemnation of Hamas or its terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. It <br />weaponizes the phrase "Never Again" and references the Holocaust in a way that <br />is insulting to the 6 million Jews — including members of our family!! - and <br />countless others who were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. And <br />most insulting is that the resolution "vows to combat antisemitism" while it <br />actually promotes and amplifies it. <br />We strongly urge you to reject the resolution !!! <br />Sincerely. <br />Bonnie & Brad Wenneberg <br />