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From:James Bangerter
To:All Council Members
Cc:City Clerk
Subject:EXTERNAL - Resolution for Ceasefire Now!
Date:Monday, February 26, 2024 11:58:15 AM
To my council members,
I have watched with horror not only over the last months but over most of my adult life as
Palestinians have been forcibly removed from their homes, fenced into their cities, killed, and
fled once their world had been bombed. However, this current violence against innocents is
unheard of in any modern warfare. What is happening in the Gaza strip is the end of a horrific
genocide.
When I was 17 years old, I walked through the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC to stand
witness to the atrocities of the past. I keep a tile from it above my desk to this day. It reads:
ONLY GUARD YOURSELF AND GUARD YOUR SOUL CAREFULLY, LEST YOU
FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES SAW, AND LEST THESE THINGS DEPART
YOUR HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. AND YOU SHALL MAKE THEM
KNOWN TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND TO YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN. -
DEUTERONOMY 4:9
I shall never forget. The horrors we have all witnessed in Palestine are not hidden behind
walls. Each new sanctuary Israel instructs Palestinians to flee to has become a death camp all
the same, as they bomb all places they declared safe and starve Palestinian women and
children to death.
By resolving to join in the call for a ceasefire now, the council will add to the chorus of voices
that can end this violence.
Ceasefire Now!
James Barnson-Bangerter
AGENDA ITEM #11.1
02/26/2024
REGULAR MEETING