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Zionism’s grip over the world: From Epstein to Greater Israel

By Sarmad Ishfaq | MEMO | March 6, 2026

What do the US Congress, Nicolás Maduro, the riots in Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the destruction of Syria have in common? Zionism and Israel have been at the forefront of genocide, foreign interference, honey traps, false flags, and other repugnant schemes since before 1948 – albeit obfuscated for decades by the mainstream media. However, the latest genocide in Gaza has lifted the veil from Israeli heinous crimes and transgressions. This article highlights some of the most significant Zionist operations in the world apart from the Gaza genocide.

Epstein & the Maxwells

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran one of the most notorious sex trafficking and pedophilia rings in the world. Their clientele: elite politicians, royalty, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and scientists from the world over.

A disgraced Jewish media tycoon and politician, Robert Maxwell, was an ardent supporter of Israel. His biographers narrate in their book “Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy” that he was recruited by Israeli intelligence in the 1960s and that he began buying Israeli tech companies for Mossad. He also owned many pro-Israel newspapers and became a UK member of parliament, citing Henry Kissinger as one of his closest friends. After his death, his lavish funeral was attended by Israeli elites, “including no fewer than six living heads of Israeli intelligence organizations.” Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him in the following words: “Robert Maxwell has done more for Israel than can today be said.”

Years later, Robert’s daughter, Ghislaine, and Epstein would become partners in crime and infamy. While Ghislaine and Epstein were partaking in child sex and human trafficking, it is also alleged that some of their mega-influential friends were also engaging in the same lascivious activities. This influential network and the Epstein files have become a thorn in the US president’s side, who was previously close to the child sex offender. While Trump’s disinclination towards releasing the Epstein files was palpable, the Epstein Files Transparency Act forced the administration’s hand, and it released 33,000 pages in September-December 2025 and over 3 million pages in January 2026 – files that mention Bill Gates, Trump, Les Wexner, Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky, etc.

These documents also showcase Epstein’s own Mossad ties. The files illuminate via an FBI report that a confidential informant was “convinced that Epstein was a co-opted Mossad agent”. The report claimed that Epstein was a spy. Moreover, his relationship with Ehud Barak, former Israeli prime minister, has also been enlightening, as not only did the duo meet frequently, but Epstein acted like a “superconnector” for Barak, where he linked the latter to Steve Bannon, Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem, Woody Allen, and many others. Epstein and Barak met around  30 times between 2013 and 2017. Apart from this, the recent tranche illuminated Epstein’s generous donations to the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF) as well as the Jewish National Fund (JNF), gifting $25,000 and $15,000 to the groups, respectively.

Even before this recent tranche of Epstein files was released, many have alluded to the same Zionist/Mossad connections. For example, Ari-Ben Menashe, a former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, stated in an interview that “I believe the Americans are sort of trapped by the Israelis. Jefferey Epstein is one of their tools to trap them.”

In the same interview, he asserted that Trump is scared of the Israelis because of what they might say against him vis-à-vis women and finances.

In another interview with Narativ, he claimed that he was introduced to Epstein by Robert Maxwell himself in the mid-1980s. Furthermore, he narrated that he met Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the 1980s and that they were both working with Israeli intelligence at that time.

Moreover, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, author of “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story,” stated in a Times of Israel interview that “It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Epstein had connections to the [Israeli intelligence community].”

Epstein was charged with child trafficking for the first time in 2005, but he served only 13 months in a non-prosecution deal whose architect was Alex Acosta, then a federal prosecutor.

A White House Staffer claimed that Acosta said, “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”

It is understood that Ghislaine Maxwell “lured most of the girls for Epstein’s abuse with promises of easy money, modelling careers, and educational assistance.” Talking to MintPress, a former US intelligence official revealed that Epstein was financed via illicit means so he could compromise/blackmail political targets. This makes the Epstein scandal perhaps one of the most expansive and consequential blackmail operations in history. Even the controversial way Epstein died before his trial, with evidence suggesting it might not have been a suicide, is enough to raise further suspicions.

The Greater Israel project

Israel has never fully declared its borders. Based on Biblical traditions, some Zionists contend that Israel has a birthright to not only the current land it occupies but also the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, parts of Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon.

This ignominious philosophy, while resonant in Netanyahu’s far-right regime, finds its inception long before Israel existed, with Theodor Herzl writing in his diaries that Israel should run “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”.

The Greater Israel project is an inveterate part of the state’s DNA – in Netanyahu’s Likud party, this concept was enshrined in the founding charter, saying “between the [Mediterranean] Sea and the Jordan [River] there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. Irridentists in Netanyahu’s government, such as Bezalel Smotrich, gleefully assert that Israel’s borders should include Damascus, Syria’s capital. In perpetual fashion to romance Israel at Palestine’s expense, Mike Huckabee, the American Ambassador to Israel, controversially remarked recently that if Israel takes all of the Middle East, “it would be fine”.

The Greater Israel ideology is not as fantastical as one thinks when one considers the historic and contemporary dismantling of the Middle East and beyond. For the countries deemed not as dangerous, a softer approach is used via peace treaties (see Jordan and Egypt) or the Abraham Accords (UAE, Sudan, and so on) – at least for now. Countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq, on the other hand, are treated belligerently. Vis-à-vis Iraq, the seminal work “The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy” by John Mershaimer and Stephen Walt highlights that “…the [Iraq] war was motivated in good part by a desire to make Israel more secure.” At that time, former PM Netanyahu testified in front of Congress that toppling Saddam would have positive reverberations across the region. Ariel Sharon, then the prime minister of Israel, had provided significant amounts of intelligence to the US regarding Iraq’s WMDs, which later turned out to be false. Furthermore, AIPAC and Washington’s pro-Israel neocons also pushed Bush to invade Iraq – a move that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. This exemplifies America’s perennial vassalage to Israel.

The bombardment of Syrian military infrastructure, as well as Israeli troops entering Syria and creating a buffer zone post-Bashaar is also a significant step towards the stated Greater Israel goal. In fact, the country has occupied hundreds of square kilometers since Bashar’s ouster, has taken over the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, and has constructed military bases in key towns in the Quneitra and Daraa governorates. This is on top of Israel’s 1967 annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights. The Israel Air Force is also acting with impunity, with Syria’s foreign minister claiming that the country has suffered 1,000 Israeli airstrikes since Dec 2024.

Presently in Lebanon, the Israeli government is not only regularly and illegally bombarding the country but has also taken over some Lebanese strategic hilltops. There was even a case where an extremist Israeli settler group crossed the border into Southern Lebanon and “called for expansion under the banner of so-called Greater Israel”. IDF soldiers have also been seen wearing a Greater Israel map on their uniforms, which has since gone viral.

When it comes to the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli settler groups have been chipping away slowly yet steadily patroned and emboldened by the country’s most far-right government ever. For example, recently, Israel’s cabinet approved measures allowing Jewish Israelis to purchase land in the West Bank. Finance Minister Smotrich shamelessly avowed that “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state”, while Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz detailed that “We are anchoring settlement as an inseparable part of Israel’s government policy”. The latter also said the IDF will “never leave” Gaza and settlements will be built in the north. Therefore, if one is still incognizant of this perverse Greater Israel philosophy, it should be transparent by now that it is no longer a fringe belief but a present-day reality.

The Iranian Riots, the 12-day & Current War

Most analysts agree that the Iranian protests began due to economic frailty, inflation, and lack of water resources, however the riots that ensued, in which even Mosques and Shrines were burnt, were markedly anomalous and have raised questions about outside intervention. Knowing Mossad’s near-monolithic infiltration in Iran (as witnessed historically and recently), it would not be far-fetched to say that the protests-turned-riots were exploited by the agency.

One huge smoking gun was Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director and Secretary of State, tweeting during the protests, “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them”.

Oddly enough, this tweet came days after a Mossad-linked account tweeted to Iranian protesters, “Go out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field”. This was a rare and shocking admission from the agency that it was active inside Iran.

Tweets aside, Mossad’s entrenchment in the country was characterized by how it operated during the 12-day Israel-Iran war in 2025. During the war that Israel started, “the Mossad was at the forefront of Israel’s assassination of nine out of 13 top Iranian military officials and around a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists”. Furthermore, the Mossad admitted that it not only utilized human spies but also drones in Operation Rising Lion. In fact, the agency released footage showing Mossad agents in Iran assembling drones and missiles – a drone base was even set up inside Iran. Israel’s military killed 436 Iranian civilians in the war (compared to Iran’s 28) and also eliminated many of Iran’s military and government leadership in the 12 days.

Coming to the ongoing war waged by the US-Israel nexus, this too is a part of the Greater Israel project. Israel and US bombings have killed over 1000 civilians in just a few days of fighting (at the time of writing this), which includes 183 children – most of the children passed away in the Minab School strike. They have also assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader and members of his family. The casualties are increasing rapidly as the war rages on, and hundreds of thousands of Iranians have been displaced. Iran has retaliated by attacking US military bases in the region, as well as Israel, and at least 16 countries have become involved in this conflict due to Zionist aggression. Marco Rubio admitted that Israel forced their hand in attacking Iran; however, due to the backlash, he backtracked on this. Israel has also started intensifying its attacks in Lebanon and is razing its cities. The IDF has killed around 102 civilians, and its actions have caused the displacement of a hundred thousand Lebanese.

Venezuela & Maduro

Why did Netanyahu celebrate the capture of President Maduro? Why did Mike Huckabee imply in an interview that the Venezuelan regime change operation was a massive victory for Israel?  On the surface, it appeared that the US’s motive for the capture of Venezuela’s president was to counter drug trafficking or to satiate its gluttony for oil, but digging deeper reveals Israel as a key motivator.

Since 2009, Venezuela, then under Hugo Chavez, severed relations with Israel due to the 2008-09 Gaza War. Venezuela had then become closer to Palestine, being the first country in the Americas to recognize it. Diplomatic and economic relations also thrived with Iran and with Hezbollah. Pro-Israel US think tanks, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies to the Atlantic Council, have touted that Hezbollah and Hamas’ alliance with Caracas poses a direct threat to the US.

Therefore, Maduro was simply a victim of extending Chavez’s pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist foreign policy.

So in taking down Maduro, a key Iranian and Hezbollah ally/satellite was severely undermined – at least from Tel Aviv’s standpoint. This becomes more apparent when viewed not as an isolated incident but as a panoptic Zionist framework of weakening the global pro-Palestinian and Iranian network: see the Syrian regime change, bombardment of the Houthis, the elimination of Hezbollah’s top leadership, and Iranian protests etcetera.

The US and Israel will obviously be looking to set up a pro-Israel regime now. The main opposition leader in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado, might be one candidate. She recently met Donald Trump and gifted her own Nobel Peace Prize to him. Many legislators in the US back her to be the next president, although Trump has not endorsed her so far. She, however, has stated that she would relocate Venezuela’s embassy to Tel Aviv and that “Certainly, Venezuela will be Israel’s closest ally in Latin America”. Whether she is backed as the successor or someone else, there is no way the US will allow a continuation of the pro-Palestinian foreign policy Venezuela adopted. This stratagem also falls poignantly into Israel’s Issac Accords – the Latin American version of the Abraham Accords, which the pro-Zionist president of Argentina, Javier Milei, launched alongside Israel. Greg Pence, in his article, aptly writes, “Israel is no longer merely a regional ally but has become the benchmark for defining threats in U.S. foreign policy”. Venezuela was the latest fatality of a bellicose, hyper-Israel-centric US foreign policy.

The Future

This list was certainly not exhaustive. It is missing the recent Somaliland recognition issue; the use of Israeli-made spyware such as Pegasus; Mossad and CIA support for Baloch separatists in Pakistan and much more. The conspiracy theorists were right about a few things: The elites are rapists, child abusers, and human traffickers; The Middle East’s destabilization is by design – not circumstantial; Genocides and regime changes are pardonable when the ones committing them are the ones ruling over us. The controlled media has kept the world benighted and ignorant of the truth. All these repulsive facts point towards one devil: Zionism.

So, what happens next? The voracious Zionists in their so-called rectitude will not cease until they fulfil their prophecy of building the Third Temple, expanding their borders, welcoming their Messiah, removing the Palestinians, and prevailing over non-Jews.

March 6, 2026 - Posted by aletho | Corruption, Deception, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Supremacism, Social Darwinism, Timeless or most popular, Wars for Israel | Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, United States, Venezuela, Zionism