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A notorious liar, fantasist and fraudster who runs a ‘private intelligence’ company predicated on ripping off wealthy foreigners by touting his connections to Israeli and US intelligence lying about hidden information only he, supposedly, has about Israeli and US intelligence? Say it ain’t so. Ben-Menashe’s entire continued existence depends on enough fake narrative-making to continue to persuade foreigners that he’s well-connected because of 10-year stint in Israeli intelligence almost 40 years ago, where his one claim to fame was being exposed to Iran-Contra not because he was an elite operative, but because he was a Persian speaker who translated the documents.
Epstein’s entire story about being a big-time arms trader and close to Mossad in the early 80s after being fired from Bear was a fantasy concocted to make his persona during the Towers Financial scheme era more interesting and to provide cover for the fact that he was essentially Wexner’s (whose alleged uh confirmed bachelor status is more evidenced than almost anything else in the Epstein narrative) rentboy during this era. Practically nobody involved in the London arms market during the Khashoggi era has any recollection of him, he certainly wasn’t a major player and certainly wasn’t well-connected.
Maxwell, of course, was close to Mossad. This fact was well-known and reported upon openly in the British and foreign press at the time, because he was considered a hero in Israel for having brokered weapons shipments during one of the early Arab-Israeli wars. It is unclear, however, that Maxwell ever even met Epstein, let alone that they were involved (interesting when countless people from that era of the business in London are still alive) beyond the faintest hearsay. Some people have claimed that they met in New York or London, or once, and yet nobody can ever actually attest to it, or produce a photograph of it, or recount one occasion where it happened.
And nobody in Mossad, which has tons of discontented leakers willing to speak to the press, has discussed intelligence Epstein’s blackmail operations supposedly produced. Given a substantial majority of those Epstein cavorted with were either powerless (like Prince Andrew) or Jewish, the objective of this supposed blackmail operation for Mossad is not even clear. Was this a dastardly scheme to blackmail Jewish billionaires into… supporting Israel? Certainly one can’t imagine them doing so otherwise.
Epstein conspiracies are mostly just people who are so trusting and naive that they can’t believe that “society”™️ would let someone get away with this. Unfortunately, it would, and it still does all the time for people much less wealthy and interesting than Epstein.
A nice tale. They are all just making these up. Not relevant that Maxwell was Israel superspy and his daughter is involved in the same business but somehow not for the same side. The Jewich chauvinists attracted to the whole project are just a coincidence. So are the constant visits of Ehud Barak, Israel ex prime minister with myriad of visits. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ehud-barak-met-with-jeffrey-epstein-dozens-of-times-flew-on-private-plane-report/
You are just so incurious about why exactly Epstein was collecting the evidence of politicians raping children.
Sorry, but neither your tale in diminishing the evidence is convincing, nor do I buy your intentions in telling it at face value. Especially since you previously pretended that those evidence didn't exist but now you are aware of Ben Menashe and ready to dismiss him. And as I now added the Ehud Barak issue, obviously this was far from exhaustive.
A Mossad blackmail operation, as part of a facet of this intlligence operation, is what fits the evidence and the testimonies.
And what was this very Jewish operation of people like Ghislane out to do then but obviously to collect blackmail. Or are you disputing the tapes now? Which somehow haven't been used to reveal the clients.
Other than the "nothing to see here" black hole, that is not naive, something worse, you really aren't serious here but engaging in desperatly trying to shut down this issue, this kind of naivety is not natural, rare can a person manage to combine an ability to not notice such important issues (like tapes) and make such strong claims.
Why were they including other Jews in the operation? Probably because like Epstein some of them were perverts, as a reward for loyalty, like the super jewish chauvinist and Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz, accused of rape by victims of this network. Some like Barak were probably there for the intelligence gathering and to coordinate it, and not to make direct use of Epstein's "products".
However, I don't see why they wouldn't implicate Jews too, to get them to also doubly work for such causes. Or to let them know that if they sing, they are going to get exposed. Not only blackmail but Jews like Maxwell or Epstein end up getting killed too by Mossad. Do you have an answer other than nothing to see here? Why were they apparently blackmailing Jews. Why so many Jews involved has an obvious answer of some of them willing to work along with it. Or do you deny that as is the tendency in such issue to deny facts as conspiracy theories? Because the blackmailing of Jews by Jews in the Epstein case is a fact. And the backing of Epstein by another pro Israel Jewich chauvinist in Wexner who created a group of Jewish billionaires in MEGA group was also a fact.
Other than obfuscation and throwing Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, are you interested like OJ about the real perpetrators and who is actually behind the Epstein (and Maxwell) issue? I guess we should stop asking questions and just end the discussion at "it just happens" and "not Mossad".
The real interesting question is whether state within a state Jewish NGOs in general are interconnected, and have any Mossad ties. There is a reason people like Epstein were allowed to operate and it isn't that "it is just normal in a society" where nothing can be done, but that broader network which is in operation, until it is brought down.
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