By Ben Emos | Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 5 min read

The bombs keep falling on Gaza, but this isn’t just about Hamas. It’s about a man named Benjamin Netanyahu — a prime minister clinging to power with blood-stained hands. As his corruption trials grind on, his coalition teeters, and his name creeps closer to the shadows of Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmail operation, Netanyahu has turned to the one tactic he knows best: war as distraction.

This isn’t Israel defending itself — this is Netanyahu defending himself.

In any functioning democracy, a leader under indictment would step aside. But not Netanyahu. He’s been on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust since 2020, and instead of facing justice, he’s weaponized power to evade it. His far-right coalition — stitched together with extremists and religious hardliners — has backed judicial overhauls, suppressed dissent, and chipped away at the independence of the courts, all in service of shielding him from conviction.

And now, as rumors and leaks swirl about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Netanyahu is reaching for an even darker lifeline: war.

The Epstein Factor

For years, the idea of Epstein’s blackmail network being tied to intelligence services was dismissed as wild conspiracy. But former Mossad operatives — including whistleblowers like Ari Ben-Menashe — have confirmed that Epstein was used as a Mossad asset, luring global elites into compromising positions. The goal? Leverage.

Epstein wasn’t just some sex trafficker with a private island. He was a political weapon.

Netanyahu’s connections aren’t just circumstantial. Flight records show he met with Epstein in the 1990s, while his political ally Ehud Barak was photographed entering Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan multiple times. Add to that Ghislaine Maxwell’s deep Mossad lineage — her father Robert Maxwell died mysteriously after being accused of embezzling pension funds and cooperating with Israeli intelligence — and the narrative takes a darker shape.

Recent leaks suggest that Netanyahu’s government lobbied Trump’s DOJ to suppress the release of Epstein’s client list. And now, just as those files threaten to surface, Gaza is turned to rubble again. The coincidence is becoming harder to ignore.

This isn’t new behavior. In 2021, as Netanyahu faced looming corruption indictments and protests across Israel, he instigated a violent crackdown in East Jerusalem and launched airstrikes on Gaza — drawing Hamas into conflict, and shifting headlines away from his legal troubles. His approval ratings jumped. The protests vanished.

It worked.

Fast forward to today: Gaza is worse than ever. Over 47,000 Palestinians dead. Infrastructure annihilated. Refugee camps and hospitals bombed. But Netanyahu doesn’t flinch — because every missile that explodes is another day he survives in office.

Even Israelis are catching on. Protests in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem have drawn massive crowds — not just against the war, but against Netanyahu himself. Many now believe he is deliberately prolonging the conflict, not for national security, but to delay elections, crush opposition, and bury Epstein-related scandals under the rubble of Gaza.

This isn’t policy. It’s panic.

If this were a normal time, no responsible attorney general would open an investigation based on political pressure. But these aren’t normal times — not in the U.S., and not in Israel. You have an almost 80-year-old American president throwing tantrums in the West Wing, reportedly hurling ketchup at the wall when his DOJ won’t indict who he wants. And you have Netanyahu doing his version of the same: bombing Gaza to keep the press from digging into his past.

It’s dangerous. It’s cynical. And it’s killing thousands.

The Western press tiptoes around Netanyahu’s name in the Epstein story. Instead, they fill airwaves with military analysis, tunnel maps, and “Hamas command centers” — all while avoiding the far more explosive question: what is Netanyahu hiding?

Ghislaine Maxwell is conveniently silent. Epstein’s client list is still “missing.” And Netanyahu? He’s more than happy to see the media focus on war.

But Israelis are tired. Many of them didn’t vote for this war. Many are Jewish, progressive, secular, and terrified of the fascist elements now embedded in government. Netanyahu has made them complicit in war crimes, in service of protecting himself from the truth.

The Danger Isn’t Just for Gaza — It’s for Israel, Too

By tying his fate to perpetual war, Netanyahu is dismantling Israel’s moral credibility, its democratic institutions, and its standing in the world. He has turned legitimate Israeli self-defense into a shield for personal corruption. And like all authoritarians, he will take the nation down with him if it buys him one more month in power.

This is no longer about Hamas. This is no longer even about Gaza.

This is about whether one man’s desperation will burn the whole region alive.

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