This is not an easy editorial to write so close to the holidays, but it is a substantial and necessary follow up to an earlier one. The disclaimer that this does not portend to represent the views of all Oregon Hill residents is in full effect.

In 2018, the country, and indeed the world, was still feeling the reverberations of the powerful #MeToo movement. This community news site, in a strongly worded editorial, cheered it on, despite the political winds, and called for stronger investigations and prosecutions of Trump’s sexual assaults, among others.

But this was before things became even more dark and twisted with the headlines of Epstein’s arrest and “suicide” (no, it was most likely not a suicide).

Today, at this time, it is extremely important to recognize some things:

Many of Epstein’s victims went to the police and FBI years ago, and in some cases, even over a decade ago. They named names (yes, including Trump).
Horribly, and shamefully, the system protected Epstein and other predators.

It’s continuing to do so now. No predators should be ‘redacted’! EXPOSE THEM ALL!

In addition to that call, there is another aspect of the Epstein papers that the corporate, mainstream media is ignoring. The American people, and indeed everyone around the world, should see what was probably the biggest and most successful sexual blackmail operation in the history of espionage.

It’s past time for the political establishment, centrists and statists all around, to admit that Epstein did not act alone. Americans deserve to know that Epstein tried to buy cyber weapons for Israel, had Israeli intelligence and their former Prime Minister stay at his house dozens of times, ran the third largest pro-Israel charity in America that itself declared it, “acted from pure Zionistic motivations.” And that he helped Mossad and CIA connect during the Iran Contra conspiracy. Epstein lobbied to get the United States to bomb Syria and Iran on behalf of Israel.
Not to mention that his hench-woman (who is now playing for a Trump pardon) was the daughter of the legendary Israeli spy, Robert Maxwell.
And the establishment politicians and media want to act like the public can’t know who Epstein worked for and with? Come on!

No, this is not ‘antisemitic’, nor is it all-out Israel-bashing. The state of Israel correctly says that it routinely faces deadly threats, and must be creative and resourceful in defense. Every ‘intelligence’/spy/counterspy agency in the world has used the very old tradition of sexual blackmail -it’s a natural part of ‘spycraft’. The United States supplies over $4 billion in ‘domestic’ and military aid to Israel, but as the old saying goes, ‘all is fair in love and war’.

Or is it? Remember the paroxysms of partisan furor over the last decade over foreign interference in government and in our very elections? The redactions we have seen so far in the released Epstein files are certainly not about protecting victims, and they are about more than protecting Conman-In-Chief Trump, Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Noam Chomsky, and many others. The American people should know the extent of THIS foreign ‘interference’.

Besides the aforementioned sexual exploitation victims of Epstein (and Maxwell, and others), there is also the matter of ongoing genocide in Gaza (now estimated over 650,000 dead, with over 350,000 of those being children under five years of age, not to mention the millions displaced). How instrumental was this sexual blackmail operation in swaying upper echelon leaders and journalists into keeping the United States government complicit with this genocide, even through the tumultuous Presidential election?
All of the world’s people deserve to know.

In the spirit of the #MeToo movement, and in remembrance of the Holocaust-
NEVER AGAIN!

Celebrate the holidays and enjoy time with family and friends, but please keep some headspace in solemn reflection and prayers for ALL victims.

May the new year bring better justice, peace, and stronger, grassroots, non-violent revolt!