Whitlock: We need a forensic investigation of the clash between Israel and Hamas

The horrific events happening in Israel and Gaza made me think of Peter Thomas, the greatest voice in the history of American television.

Thomas narrated one of my favorite TV shows, “Forensic Files,” a series of 30-minute documentaries that recounted the resolution of real-life murder mysteries.

Before finding TV fame, Thomas served in World War II. An Army infantryman, Thomas stormed the beaches of Normandy and fought during the Battle of the Bulge. He received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Later in life, he dedicated much of his time to supporting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The old-school American hero was blessed with a set of pipes, an elderly, soothing storyteller’s cadence. His voice oozed wisdom. For me, he uttered his most memorable “Forensic Files” line during the season 6 premiere in 2001. He relayed the story of the murder of Carolyn Killaby, a woman from the Pacific Northwest. Thomas said the local prosecutor told him: "Before you look at outlaws, you have to look at the in-laws.”

Put another way, when it comes to violent crime, most of the time the perpetrator is someone very close to the victim.

I wish Peter Thomas were alive today to narrate the tragic, deadly events plaguing our society. He would instruct us to first look within. I spent Monday and Tuesday this week talking about the tragedy that befell Israel. Among other things, Hamas terrorists killed babies and raped and tortured women. It’s the type of atrocity that could spark global conflict.

So far, it has provoked politicians, pundits, and influencers to rush to microphones and social media apps to fire off angry hot takes. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley implored Israel to “finish” Hamas. Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro has unleashed a handful of profanity-laced tweets and memes that appear to call for retaliatory and escalated violence.

I understand the raw emotion, particularly for American Jews with close ties to Israel.

But I also understand the caution and confusion of other Americans. The last 60 years of American history have taught us to look at our in-laws before nuking the designated outlaws.

Just 20 years ago, America invaded Iraq because George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell told us Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

A couple of years earlier, American citizens surrendered their privacy and our lawmakers passed the Patriot Act because Osama bin Laden masterminded a plot to bring down the World Trade Center Towers with airplanes.

Three years ago, our rulers used the COVID-19 pandemic to change election procedures and normalize mail-in voting and “Election Month” rather than Election Day.

Sixty years ago, a beloved U.S. president was assassinated in broad daylight. The secrets of that assassination are so damning that the files remain hidden from the American public.

I pointed this stuff out this week on my show, “Fearless.” The theme of Tuesday’s show was “Conspiracy Weary.” A woman emailed me a reaction. The subject line of her email read: “Dead babies are not a conspiracy.”

Here’s what she wrote inside the email:

I love your fires. But I am not sure that I follow today’s. Conspiracy weary is accurate. But I don’t get the connection to the terrorism that occurred in Israel. Facts are not a conspiracy. A lot of innocents died or are in danger today. Both Jews and Palestinian people that are innocent are in danger. Facts. Hamas or Iran have never hidden their disdain for Israel.

No one is denying the danger in or the atrocities that occurred in Israel. I’m certainly not.

I’m asking us to remove emotion and ask important questions before deciding what to do in response to the atrocity. An analysis of American and global history of the last 100 years suggests that the powerful often manipulate world events to promote endless war and conflict.

Before we sign on with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “finish” Hamas and Palestine, I’d like to know how Hamas circumvented Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies to inflict so much damage. I want to investigate the in-laws. I want to make sure the global elites who keep saying the world is overpopulated aren’t trying to provoke World War III.

The fictional TV show “Game of Thrones” was based on the theory that men will stop at nothing to acquire and maintain power. No depravity is too great. In an attempt to claim the Iron Throne, Stannis Baratheon had his young daughter burned at the stake.

Real-life world history is littered with examples of tyrannical governments committing human atrocities. Do you think all the Obama administration drone strikes spared women and children?

Do you think Antifa is incapable of the kind of depraved violence we just saw from Hamas? Are you that naive?

Political leaders in both parties condoned the violence of Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Antifa and BLM are terrorist groups that work for the Democratic Party and globalists.

As long as the global elites keep arguing that the world is overpopulated, I believe they are capable of extreme violence to achieve their goal of depopulation. The people who promote crushing babies inside the womb wouldn’t have a problem with beheading a few hundred children to ignite global conflict.

They hate humanity. Every political position they take — transgenderism, gay marriage, abortion, experimental vaccines, normalizing obesity, feminism — leads to death and depopulation.

From my vantage point, Hamas shares the same worldview as the global elites who hate humanity and think women should be treated as men, the people who have no problem exploiting children on Epstein Island, at drag shows, inside Planned Parenthood facilities, and on gender-affirming operating tables.

The in-laws are the real outlaws. The last 60 years have taught me to check the alibi story of the elites before I solely blame the desperate peasants.