{"id":458,"date":"2023-10-10T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seyyahizcilik.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2023-10-10T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:35:09","slug":"editorial-rep-tim-hernandez-shouldnt-stay-silent-on-the-murder-rape-and-torture-of-innocent-israelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seyyahizcilik.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/editorial-rep-tim-hernandez-shouldnt-stay-silent-on-the-murder-rape-and-torture-of-innocent-israelis\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Rep. Tim Hern\u00e1ndez shouldn\u2019t stay silent on the murder, rape and torture of innocent Israelis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Newly appointed Colorado state Rep. Tim Hern\u00e1ndez clarified that he was rallying for support of Palestinians<\/a> and not for Hamas on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol only a day after Hamas militants murdered, raped, and kidnapped hundreds of innocent Israelis near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n While we appreciate the clarification, and while we also pray for the hundreds of innocent Palestinians who were killed in recent days as casualties of the war sparked by Hamas, we cannot help but note what Hern\u00e1ndez has refused to do \u2013 condemn Hamas\u2019 terrorism.<\/p>\n \u201cI condemn war for any loss at all,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez wrote in a prepared statement responding to both accusations that he was tacitly endorsing violence by his presence at the rally, and to a video recording a conversation he had with a counter-protester where he appeared to refuse to condemn the violence. \u201cWar threatens the dignity of life for citizens in all of Gaza, in all of Israel, and across the Earth, and I hope one day soon we may build a world free from war entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n Dallying with violence and terrorism and acts of pure evil by mincing his words makes us realize that Hern\u00e1ndez considers this an abstract exercise in political gamesmanship \u2013 perhaps the type of contrarian debate a freshman philosophy major would engage in during class as an exercise, not the real-world response needed in the face of beheadings and torture.<\/p>\n Hern\u00e1ndez has played this game before \u2013 albeit on a much smaller scale of importance \u2014 refusing to condemn the actions of some bad actors during the Black Lives Matter protests who vandalized buildings in downtown Denver and Aurora. He told 9News when asked about whether he thinks violence is necessary that he personally isn\u2019t a violent person but that he wasn\u2019t \u201chere to police protest<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Now he says \u201cI\u2019m against attacking innocent people\u201d but refuses to say that Hamas doing just that over the weekend is wrong.<\/p>\n