 Are you going to condemn them for cutting off food, water, and electricity to Gaza? Another war crime called collective punishment. Did it ever cross your mind to condemn Israel when they assassinated Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Aqla in broad daylight, or when they brutalized the people carrying her coffin peacefully, or when Israeli snipers killed innocent people processors throughout the March of Return? Did the people in office before you ever consider condemning Israel at any point since its inception wouldn't cram a country full of people into a 60 mile corner of their own country creating the largest concentration camp in history, the largest open air prison in the world? The answer is a resounding no. You never considered it, nor did your ancestors. But unfortunately for you, time's a change. The world is increasingly aware of the crimes of Israel and increasingly aware of the framework of politicians who enable their continued apartheid by resolutions such as these. And in a city like Chicago with majority black and brown people who have experienced the apartheid-like conditions of oppression in the United States, a generation of young people have emerged who understand immediately that we have everything in common with the Palestinian people and nothing in common with the brutal Zionists under who they suffered. A generation of people who are not surprised when we find out that our politicians up to our president spread lies about 40 babies being beheaded in order to rationalize genocide. We're only surprised that they're forced to walk those lives back. But of course the damage is done. People are still spewing the debunked lies about rape and massacre of babies even here in this very meeting. When actually there is endless evidence of Israel having killed over 500 babies in the last 48 hours alone. Having dropped more bombs in 24 hours than the US dropped on Afghanistan in one year. And finally let it be known that condemning the attack as the actions of some fringe groups misses the point of what's going on. The attacks were carried out by a broad coalition of groups from every section of Palestinian society not just Hamas. That coalition represents a people determined to attain freedom at any cost. And they have arrived at this point in the face of a broad coalition of right wing Zionists and their supporters like those in the city council who would start a meeting with a prayer calling for their attempt at freedom. A second Holocaust where are so silent you could hear a rapist on cotton when innocent peaceful Palestinians are annihilated day in and day out like the Native Americans of this country. If it were another time these same people will be condemning Africans for rebelling against the slave masters and slavery such as Nat Tern.