While trafficking young girls, he was also part of an effort to export military-grade systems to governments around the world<\/p>\n
When I first moved to New York, I walked into my new dentist\u2019s office and genuinely wondered whether I\u2019d accidentally wandered into a Victoria\u2019s Secret audition.
\nThe waiting room was full of stunning young women. Eventually I learned the dentist shared space with a modeling agency. You couldn\u2019t tell who was getting veneers and who was getting a contract until you were halfway down the hallway.
\nJeffrey Epstein\u2019s life operated on the same architectural principle: two businesses shoved into one building, one involving underaged girls, the other involving powerful political figures, including some tied to the Israeli government. Not exactly whitening trays and catwalks, but equally disorienting.
\nEpstein\u2019s whole operation was like a perverted crossover episode of \u201cLaw & Order\u201d meets \u201cHouse of Cards.\u201d The salacious half got all the airtime, but the geopolitical part seems to have largely ended up on the cutting room floor.
\nJeremy Scahill\u2019s Dropsite News recently published\u00a0inbox receipts showing that in 2006 Epstein teamed up with lawyer Alan Dershowitz to smack down \u201cThe Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy,\u201d by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Dershowitz wrote the rebuttal, \u201cDebunking the Newest \u2013 and Oldest \u2013 Jewish Conspiracy,\u201d and Epstein blasted it out to his rich and powerful pals. Perhaps a little light reading en route to Epstein island or while being rubbed down by a member of Epstein\u2019s harem.
\nThe moment anyone points out that a certain foreign government might be exercising influence, there\u2019s always someone who starts shouting about bigotry. Because apparently some nations think that criticism of their foreign policy is like a trap door in one of those Indiana Jones movies, capable of sparking a chain reaction that can bring the whole thing crashing down.<\/p>\n
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Congress warns Clintons over Epstein case<\/p>\n
Epstein\u2019s connections to Israel have been whispered about for years. His right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell, currently a guest at Uncle Sam\u2019s big house, is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a Brit whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 included business tycoon, media mogul, and all-around establishment leechlord with enough Israeli intelligence ties to qualify for a final permanent nap there. His mysterious death at sea came with a Jerusalem memorial service and a burial on the Mount of Olives. Was London fully booked that weekend?
\nThen there was Epstein\u2019s friendship with former Israeli prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak. The two worked together to export Israeli cyberwarfare tools disguised as tech and security startups,\u00a0including to Washington\u00a0\u2013 which is either in on the notion of having Israeli tech spy on Americans for them, or too stupid to realize the difference between being sold an aromatherapy diffuser or a flamethrower.
\nRecently released emails show that Epstein also arranged meetings between Israel and Russian officials during the war in Syria.\u00a0But officially, there\u2019s absolutely nothing suspicious in any of this. Unless it\u2019s Russian interference that you\u2019re criticizing in that case, then you\u2019re probably just a bigot.
\nBut Epstein-style offensive and defensive influence efforts, investments in which have recently been promoted by Israeli\u00a0Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,\u00a0are hardly exclusive to America.
\nThe Eurovision Song Contest is the latest institution to enter an Israeli-sponsored Twilight Zone episode.\u00a0Euronews recently asked: \u201cWhat are Eurovision\u2019s new voting rules following allegations of Israeli government \u2018interference\u2019?\u201d Because apparently even Europe\u2019s annual tune and tranny extravaganza now needs election observers.<\/p>\n
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Trump signs bill to release Epstein files<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, more concrete political influence is happening offstage. NBC News has highlighted the \u201cclose relationship\u201d between Israeli secret services and the Iranian opposition in exile in Europe, also known as the MEK.\u00a0The MEK\u2019s biggest Western fans include Israel\u2019s pep squad: Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo.\u00a0Thanks to their efforts, the MEK is now off the US and EU terrorist list, allowing them to be queued up for the first string tug in any future Iranian regime change efforts.
\nHere\u2019s what an actual attempt at independence looks like these days for Europe. Back in September, the EU announced that it was finally getting tough on Israel over Gaza. \u201cQueen\u201d Ursula von der Leyen strutted out acting like she\u2019d just personally unplugged the Iron Dome. But then you check the numbers: six million euros cut here, fourteen million paused there.\u00a0Brussels spends more than that on pastries and lanyards for conferences.
\nEuropean officials acted like it was a seismic economic event. In reality, it was more like a breeze, with sanctions barely making a ripple. The major EU-Israel trade deal is still in place, but \u201cunder review,\u201d which in bureaucrat-speak just means that they hope everyone\u2019s forgotten it by now.
\nIsrael\u2019s response was to accuse the EU of falling for Hamas propaganda and overlooking Israeli humanitarian efforts in Gaza. That\u2019s the diplomatic equivalent of saying, \u201cYes, I knocked down your house with a bulldozer, but I also watered your plants, so let\u2019s not be too dramatic.\u201d
\nA big song and dance worthy of a Eurovision entry. All a distraction from the fact that the EU\u2019s main connection to Israel is weapons. Half of Israel\u2019s total defense exports. Israeli defense giants like Elbit and Rafael even run factories inside Europe and recently won a contract to supply electronic warfare systems for new NATO frigates.<\/p>\n
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Germany to lift arms export restrictions on Israel<\/p>\n
So while EU officials brag about trimming a few symbolic programs, protesters across Europe have been targeting the real levers of foreign power at home: the weapons industry. Elbit in Germany has been vandalized and its subsidiaries picketed while officials blow off activists\u2019 concerns like teenagers being told to clean their room.
\nGermany\u2019s Chancellor Friedrich Merz even recently announced a visit to Israel\u00a0while lifting an arms embargo altogether.\u00a0Nothing says moral outrage quite like trading in missiles.
\nSo Queen Ursula can keep declaring that the EU is \u201cpressuring\u201d Israel. But as long as they keep signing weapons contracts, the pressure campaign has about the same impact as stapling a strongly worded memo to a tank.
\nWhile Epstein was trafficking young girls, he was part of an effort to export Israeli-linked military-grade systems to governments around the world \u2013 a once-submerged iceberg that\u2019s now coming into fuller view.\u00a0He actively worked to undermine anyone who dared suggest any such insidiousness, portraying them as conspiratorial crackpots worthy of cancellation and marginalization from polite society.
\nSo who gets to actually ask the hard questions about all this, then? No one?
\nIf everyone who does is written off as prejudiced, and the establishment and its corrupt self-interests get to decide what questions can be asked, then the only freedom and sovereignty left \u2013 from America to the EU and beyond \u2013 risks being the kind that\u2019s reduced to a quaint museum display case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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