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Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by dang on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:16AM (#21460158)
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by bsaul on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:38PM (#21458096)
Not the first time i’ve heard people talking about connection between epstein and mossad, but i’ve never actually read anything about it. Do you have any source giving more info on that ?

Alos, based on the article, it seems the reason abc didn’t publish anything is more due to pressure from the british royal family rather than israel, or did i miss something ?

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by voldacar on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:46PM (#21458626)
Alexander Acosta (prosecutor against Epstein in 2007) made a cryptic remark that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and that he was told to leave the case alone.

This remark, along with the soft plea deal he got have created a lot of speculation (mostly outside of mainstream news outlets, for obvious reasons), that Epstein was operating a blackmail honeypot for some intelligence agency, either the CIA or Mossad I guess, since he had some ties to the Israeli defense industry and some former high-level Israeli politicians.

It's honestly not that implausible that an intelligence agency would let him keep his pedo ring as long as they knew who was in it, it would have been a blackmail goldmine based on the kind of people that were in his social circle.

Here is the source of the quote and some more information on his ties to Israeli intelligence if this interests you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Financial_cons...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Israeli_startu...

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by Quekid5 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:43PM (#21458146)
(Not that I buy into any conspiracy theories, but...)

I'm guessing it's because Ghislaine Maxwell (who has now gone underground, whereabouts unknown) was intimately tied to Epstein, and her father Robert Maxwell has plausible ties to Mossad. (Check the Wikipedia on Robert Maxwell.)

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by nyolfen on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:49PM (#21458197)
not to mention the former labor secretary saying that epstein "belonged to intelligence": https://www.dailywire.com/news/acosta-was-told-epstein-belon...
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by selimthegrim on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:46PM (#21458170)
I can’t imagine Robert Maxwell being the model parent.
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by milesskorpen on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:38PM (#21458099)
Unrelated to this article and reeks of antisemitic tropes.
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by curiousgal on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:40PM (#21458116)
There has to be an internet law regarding the speed of convergence of Israel mentions to cries of antisemitism.

That being said I don't agree with OP.

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by flimsythoughts on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:42PM (#21458132)
The article referred to the British royal family, not Israel or Jews. Yet the OP felt the need to say the world was ruled by Israel.

Yes, it smells like antisemitism.

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by hyperbovine on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:49PM (#21458203)
anti-Israel != anti-Semitism. You can be against things that the Jewish state does without being against Jews.
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by flimsythoughts on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:03PM (#21458325)
smells like != necessarily

If someone made an off topic comment about China or Obama or whatever, I'd suspect their motivations on those too.

It doesn't mean that every criticism of Obama or China is necessarily racist, but boy is it hard to read goodwill in comments where that sort of thing is irrelevant.

Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by bsaul on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:00PM (#21458304)
Except nobody in epstein story is israeli. So then why make the link ?
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' by throwaway_98554 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:49PM (#21458206)
If I said the world is ruled by France, would you say I'm antiwhite?