Kingdom of Vice: Epstein and the Mossad… The Devil in Every Detail

Asia Al-Atrus

Five hundred lawyers are currently studying the documents released so far by the US Department of Justice regarding the Epstein case, in accordance with the Transparency Law. This indicates the seriousness and gravity of the case, which has dominated many media outlets to date.

In numerical terms, we are dealing with three million documents, 180,000 photos, and 2000 videos. This means that the information and names published about those involved in the official prostitution network are merely the tip of the iceberg, and we will have to wait for what the remaining files will reveal, should they occur, as the document review process progresses.

Similarly, talk of resignations within political parties, governments, or royal families is merely a prelude to what is to come. We know very well that prostitution rings, human trafficking gangs, and the exploitation of minors exist in the world of crime and corruption, and these networks are transnational. However, when it comes to the world’s decision-makers and experts in politics, finance, communication, and cinema—those who distribute the cards of virtue and good morals— they are tantamount to a collapse. The collapse of the values ​​and principles upon which the world has been built until now—values ​​and principles supposedly meant to provide protection from the inferno of chaos.

As the scandals of the empire of vice linked to Epstein continue to unfold, it remains certain that he was merely the front for the intelligence network and Mossad, who recruited him for this mission before eliminating him in the hope of burying the dark truth with him. It is crucial at this juncture to examine the initial reaction of the US president following the release of three million tons of documents by the US Department of Justice, nearly five years after the death of the influential owner of the Epstein Island, accused of child rape.

Some of those accused are now breaking their silence, exposing the role of a segment of the American elite, Hollywood elites, and others in this scandal, which will likely make the American public forget the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon. While awaiting further revelations about the abhorrent scandals of Epstein Island and perhaps the motives behind the disappearance of the main perpetrator, who died in prison, it appears that many names from both the Democratic and Republican parties are implicated.

This is the crux of the matter: The decision-makers who circulate the game, control the fate of the world, and compete to spread democracy. Those who claim to uphold morality and universal values ​​are embroiled in scandals into which they have been swept, falling into a trap that even Hollywood studios seem incapable of imagining or matching. US President Donald Trump, whose name has repeatedly surfaced in the case files, appeared resolute, asserting that the published documents prove his innocence, contrary to the claims of his leftist adversaries.

This suggests that the US president is concerned with the implications and impact of this case on American public opinion at this particular time. We are not here to judge the US president’s statements in this most serious case circulating on social media, but rather to try to understand the repercussions of this case on the rapidly unfolding regional and international transformations. However, this understanding is not without considering the primary and influential force pulling the strings, manipulating or pacifying those involved through all available means after studying their personalities and weaknesses.

This involves luring them into compromising situations, filming or recording them to exert pressure, blackmail, and bargaining. Perhaps we are not exaggerating when we consider these tactics to be typical of intelligence networks, foremost among them the Israeli Mossad and which surpassed American intelligence. In his book, “By Way of Deception,” former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky reveals the inner workings of the Mossad and its deception of the world to carry out dirty work in various European and Arab countries. He describes how Mossad agents infiltrate these countries, luring and assassinating politicians, activists, and scientists thanks to their advanced technology and the listening posts they have established from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

In one chapter, Ostrovsky exposes a swimming pool where Mossad leaders meet with their male and female collaborators. This pool is no less sordid, deviant, vile, and despicable than what goes on on Epstein Island, which can be described as the Devil’s Salt Flat, a gathering place for the political, Hollywood, and intelligence elite to conduct their criminal activities and practices. They are obsessed with exploiting children for their pleasure and plotting to target anything that might stand in the way of their interests.

The book clearly illustrates the Mossad mentality, which has consistently employed every malicious practice to ensnare its targets: Politicians, businessmen, media figures, and artists, whom they use in the game of intelligence and its wars. The Hidden…

…Some names, including British politician Peter Mandelson, chose to resign from the Labour Party to avoid embarrassment for his party after new information was revealed about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein…


In Slovakia, a high-ranking official also resigned after photos and emails revealed his meetings with Epstein in the years following his release from prison… Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles, was stripped of his titles and forced to apologize after photos of him with Epstein were published, and the same happened with the Crown Princess of Norway.

There is no doubt that Epstein kept a list of his close associates to exploit in blackmail operations, and it can be concluded that Epstein’s death in 2019 was not natural but rather part of a plan to get rid of him and bury his secrets and documents with him. However, it seems that the magic is turning against the magician, and perhaps the results of the investigations into three million documents will surprise many, including the American public, if the remaining documents are declassified and placed under scrutiny to expose the network of official profiteering from underage children, killing them, and shedding their blood to practice deviant satanic rituals. Its title is moral corruption and the exploitation of the dignity and humanity of underage children.

The Black Record, or Black Book, of Epstein has only revealed a fraction of it. Trump, and before him Bush Jr., and others, and their relationship with Epstein may not be the end of the story. Perhaps the coming days will hold more shocking surprises about the man of peace and his whims, but also about his plans, capabilities, and potential.

The Mossad’s intentions in infiltrating and penetrating are for purposes that cannot be discerned. The question remains: Why is all this dangerous information and these facts being leaked at this particular time? What are the Israeli Mossad’s calculations? And is there a link between the Epstein documents and the Israeli occupation entity’s insistence and pressure to target Iran and attempt to destabilize the Middle East region?

Asia Al Atrus is a Tunisian writer and journalist and this article appeared in the Arabic website Rai Al Youm.

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550 Security Chiefs Warn Netanyahu Against Reoccupying Gaza

Hundreds of former Israeli security chiefs and diplomats warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday against proceeding with plans for the full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip.

In a statement posted on X, the Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) movement – which includes more than 550 former senior officials from the military, Mossad, Shin Bet, police, National Security Council, and Foreign Ministry – urged Netanyahu “to avoid a hasty decision to occupy Gaza.”

The Gaza reoccupation “runs counter to the army chief (Eyal Zamir)’s professional advice and the stance of most Israelis,” they warned.

The group argued that full occupation would endanger Israeli soldiers and hostages, citing that there are regional and international alternatives that the government refuses to discuss.

They called for “returning the hostages, ending the war, replacing Hamas’ rule, joining a regional alliance, and preparing for a potential second war with Iran.”

The warning comes as Netanyahu pushes ahead with plans to reoccupy Gaza, with the Security Cabinet set to meet Thursday to discuss the move. The Israeli army chief has opposed any plan to fully reoccupy Gaza, calling it a “strategic trap.”

The Israeli opposition and hostage families accuse Netanyahu of intentionally delaying a Gaza ceasefire and prisoners swap in favor of partial agreements that allow the war to continue and serve to keep his fragile coalition intact.

Israel has been facing mounting outrage over its destructive war on Gaza, where more than 61,100 people have been killed since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and brought it to the verge of famine.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza according to Anadolu.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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Hanthala Outlasts Naji Al Ali as He Predicted

By the time he died on August 29, 1987, he had a collection of 40,000 cartoons. Naji Al Ali, the famous Palestinian cartoonist, had been in a coma for five weeks after being shot in the head by a gunman outside the London offices of Al Qabas newspaper on July 22.

Although till now nobody is certain of who killed him, Al Ali’s death was a result of decades of rebelliousness against the Arab status quo, his longing for change in Arab society, and the introduction of democracy.

He felt this would be translated into political strength to fight for the return of Palestine. Al Ali had the knack of weaving politics and culture together. His drawings had distinct messages: they were contextual, fighting against injustice and oppression in the Arab world.

Naji Al Ali was one of a kind. In few simple lines, he could depict the drama of a whole population and convey messages sometimes so sharp and rich in symbols that the viewer’s attention was effortlessly drawn to understanding the hidden meanings.

Though his messages were politically-driven, he always maintained he was apolitical and that politics did nothing for him.

This is despite the fact that his life had come to be dictated by a series of political actions. His expulsion, along with his family, to Lebanon in 1948, and ending up in Ain Al Hilweh camp, was but the first of these actions. Al Ali was only 10 or 11 when he was forced out of Shajara, a village of 400 that were destroyed by Israel.

Given a chance

In the 1950s, before being given the chance to go to Kuwait, his life was immersed in politics. He took part in demonstrations and served time in Lebanese jails. During this time, he started drawing on the walls of the camp and in prison.

“I felt within me a need for a different medium to express what I was going through,” he used to say. He often said he felt it was harder to censor a cartoon than an article. Al Ali’s talent was first discovered by Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian writer and activist killed by the Israelis in the early 1970s. He was visiting the camp at the time, came upon Al Ali’s work, took a sample and latter published them in Al Hurriya, the magazine he was working for.

This may have given Al Ali the opportunity to work in Kuwait in 1964 at the Al Talieh magazine, a now well-established weekly, representing the voice of the nationalists. There, he made his professional career as a cartoonist, though he did other things as well. In 1971 he returned to Lebanon where he worked in the well-respected Al Saffir.

It was in Lebanon he found the best and most productive years of his life, he would later write. “There, surrounded by the violence of many an army, and finally by the Israeli invasion (1982), I stood facing it all with my pen every day, I never felt fear, failure or despair, and I didn’t surrender. I faced armies with cartoons and drawings of hope and flowers, hope and bullets.”

But, contrary to this cheerful attitude, one also felt there was a degree of anger, mixed with cynicism and despair within Naji Al Ali that always prompted him in his cartoons; it was the failure of action, of ineptitude and the lack of Arab resolve.

That’s why he may have created the Hanthala cartoon that always came to appear in his sketches from the 1960s onwards. In fact, in an almost perceptive vision of his death, Ali would say Hanthala would outlast him and would live long after he was was dead.

Hanthala, whose name means bitterness in Arabic , represents the aspirations of the camp refugees and the right of return. We never see his face as he is never shown facing the reader.

Naji Al Ali described him as a bare-footed child with spiky hair, with his hands firmly clasped behind his back as a symbol of rejection to what happened to the Palestinians. He will only turn his head, when Palestine is regained. Hanthala will remain 10 years old until he returns to the homeland, when he will start growing up again.

After 1982, Naji Al Ali went back to Kuwait to work in Al Qabas, but there was no let down in his political message. In 1985, he was expelled, but continued to work in the newspaper’s London office.

His cartoons continued to appear in many daily newspapers across the region in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon.

Did Al Ali’s untimely death at the age of 51, mean Hanthala will never turn his head, or will he wait for someone to redraw him.

Whichever the case, and in the spirit of his creator, he will continue with his back to the audience until Palestine is liberated.

This article, written by me, is reprinted here from the archives of Gulf News.

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Iran Strikes Mossad Center

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced, Tuesday it had directly targeted and struck two high-level intelligence facilities inside Israel, including the headquarters of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) and a Mossad operational center.

The announcement came after a wave of Iranian ballistic missiles struck central areas of the occupied territories early Tuesday morning. 

Israeli media confirmed at least five missiles hit targets across the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, with one reportedly landing in Herzliya—a coastal city that hosts key Israeli security and intelligence infrastructure.

A separate strike targeted the Glilot area, a highly sensitive site believed to house core logistical operations for Aman. 

Military censorship was swiftly imposed on coverage of that location, though images published by Israeli outlets suggest a large warehouse or command center was hit.

The IRGC stated that the precision strikes were part of its ongoing Operation True Promise 3, which aims to deliver “precise and painful blows” to the Israeli occupation in retaliation for recent attacks on Iranian cities and infrastructure.

The broader missile barrage included the launch of 20 to 30 ballistic missiles from Iran toward central and southern areas of the occupied territories. 

Air raid sirens were heard across Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, and surrounding towns as Israeli air defenses attempted interception.

Despite those efforts, multiple explosions were recorded across the region. Israeli media reported loud blasts in Herzliya, Ramat HaSharon, and Ra’anana, with several buildings damaged and injuries reported. 

According to Magen David Adom, ten Israelis were injured while rushing to shelters.

Fires, Evacuations, and Structural Damage

The Fire and Rescue Authority responded to at least eight incidents in the Hasharon region and greater Gush Dan. 

Over 20 firefighting teams were deployed to contain fires caused by falling debris and missile shrapnel. A blaze was also reported in Kfar Saba after Iranian projectiles impacted the area.

Three additional Iranian missiles reportedly struck targets in southern “Israel”, including near Beer al-Sabe’ (Beersheba) in the western Naqab.

Authorities are investigating reports that some Israelis may be trapped beneath rubble in the Tel Aviv area, though official casualty counts have not been released.

Israeli media reported a delay in the missile alert system, with detection occurring only two minutes before impact. Sirens were reportedly triggered just three minutes before the strikes, prompting criticism of the so-called Home Front Command.

Iran Responds

Iranian officials said the missile operation was a direct response to the Israeli occupation’s continued bombing of Iranian hospitals, media buildings, and residential neighborhoods. 

While Israeli authorities claim to be targeting “military sites,” the rising civilian death toll inside Iran has drawn international condemnation.

The missile strikes appear intended to demonstrate Iran’s capacity to hit deep inside the occupied territories with precision, targeting not only population centers but also high-value strategic and intelligence locations.

The IRGC confirmed the launch of the ninth wave of Operation True Promise 3 on Monday night, stating that strikes would continue through dawn on Tuesday. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency published footage showing missiles traversing the skies over the occupied West Bank.

Separately, the IRGC said it had struck the same base from which Israeli aircraft had launched an attack on Iran’s state broadcasting authority days earlier.

Air raid sirens were also activated across the north, from Nahariya to Caesarea and Haifa, as well as in the occupied Syrian Golan, amid fears of further drone or missile attacks according to the Palestine Chronicle.

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How Will Israel Stop The Houthi Missiles!

By Dr Marwan Asmar

Houthis missiles continue to rain down on Israel and that’s not an understatement. Only in this past month of May Israel was subject to 16 ballistic missiles. That’s almost one every two days. Sometimes two missiles were fired in one day.

On Thursday another ballistic missile was fired on Tel Aviv that stopped a football match for at least 10 minutes in a packed stadium of 30,000 people. Among the spectators, who were ordered to lie down, was Israeli president Isaac Herzog who was scurried to safety. 

The incoming missile for Ben Gurion Airport set sirens in over 300 major cities, towns, villages and settlements between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

In addition to that, and something that has become normal for Israelis since 7 October, 2023, 3 to 4 million hurried to underground shelters disrupting their lives and work processes.

This is not to say anything about the continuing psychological blows inflicted on them, and on a daily basis. This is the first time they have been subjected to what has become a set of nightmare occurrences first from Hezbollah and now the Houthi missiles travelling over 2000 kilometers north diagonally over the Red Sea to hit Israeli targets.

Thursday’s attack was in response to Wednesday’s Israeli bombing – the second time since 6 May – of the Sanaa International airport. Israeli bombs already destroyed the airport and the last attack made through 10 Israeli warplanes finished off the only aircraft left that belonged to the Yemeni airlines. The plane had just arrived in Sanaa from the Jordan capital of Amman.

And a day before that the Houthis had fired another missile on Tel Aviv. While most of the missiles are fired down by the Israeli forces before they reach their targets they have created tremendous confusion in the Israeli airwaves. Today tens of airlines have stopped flying to Tel Aviv despite the pleadings of the Israeli government that Israeli airports are safe. 

Since January 2025, 35 ballistic missiles have been launched on Israel from different locations in Yemen. Also, since early this year, 14 so-called attack drones were launched from Yemen to strike targets in Israel. 

As well, and only since March 29 missiles and 9 drones were fired from Yemen because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relaunched the war on Gaza on 19th March. Despite the Israeli precautions and ground batteries that shot down these missiles, they have created much debris on the ground when they came down to earth.

With the 16 ballistic missiles launched in May, four drones were also fired on different Israeli cities, statistics provided and confirmed by the Israeli army. It further states that  since 7 October 2023 the Houthis launched 70 missiles on Israeli sites, including ports, airports,  the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv and many more.

The Israeli army state these exclude the 330 drones that were fired on Israel over the past 19 months of the Israel genocide on Gaza taking the number of Palestinian deaths to 54,321 with the number of injuries at 123,770.

As a result, the Houthis succeeded in imposing an air embargo on Israel in May as their leadership insists. Their projectiles have stopped 10s of international airlines from flying to the Ben Gurion Airport with British Airways and the low-cost Ryanair being the latest to suspend flights.

These are the latest to follow the Lufthansa group which include SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings. They have already stopped going to Tel Aviv and are watching the situation carefully before they take the step of resetablishing air connections.

Since 4 May other planes that suspended flights to Israel include  Latvian airline, AirBaltic, easyJet, United Airlines, Iberia and Transavia.

However, among the few foreign airlines that recently resumed flight services to Israel are Air France, Delta, Wizz Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Etihad Airways and Greece’s Aegean Airlines states The Times of Israel.

Unprecedented

The Thursday ballistic missile was unprecedented because the Israeli president was watching. The match had to stop while he was rushed away to safety. The Israeli media says the match was stopped twice when the missiles were launched from Yemen and when tens of thousands of people were told to lie on the ground for 20 minutes and a second time when spectators booed Herzog.

The Houthi leadership already warned the Israelis to do “what it will” because it will not stop firing the ballistic missiles on Israel until the latter stops its war on Gaza.

They say that Israel can bomb Yemen as much as it wants but it will not stop the missiles on Tel Aviv and different areas like Eilat.  Despite putting on a strong face Israel is in a quandary. About 30 Israeli warplanes took part in destroying the Sanaa Airport on 5 May but the Yemenis have not flinched.

Now, the Israeli Minister Israel Katz is in a vehement mood and is warning that Israel will continue to bomb and re-bomb existing sites till the end if need be. Truth be told however, the Israelis are bombing indiscriminately as they don’t know and figure out where the Houthis missiles are being fired from in Yemen.

Netanyahu is convinced that Iran is supplying the Houthis with the missiles and that’s why he wants to hit the country but the problem with that is the Trump administration at present is  talking to Tehran about reaching an agreement on its nuclear file and is sending direct messages to Netanyahu to lay off that country and not attempt any foolish act like striking its nuclear facilities.

Thus only time will tell how international relations will unravel especially since Trump reached a deal with the Houthis at the beginning of May that they would stop bombing them if they desist from attacking American ships and planes. The previous months or so the US waged a military campaign on the Houthis that led to nowhere but a costly war of $1 billion.

With the US out of the way, it can be said the Houthis are having a field day on continuing their strikes on Israel. Their message is simple: Stop bombing Gaza and we will stop striking Israel.

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