Inside the Shadow Pact Between Israel and Saudi Arabia
Israel and Saudi Arabia quietly aligning themselves long before the public photo ops isn’t sudden. For years, regional reporters have been writing about 'unofficial channels' between Tel Aviv and Riyadh from the early 2010s. What is new, however, is the growing understanding of how those channels were established, who was responsible for setting them up, and the role that cyber-warfare and private capital played.
Jeffrey Epstein is at the heart of this situation, not since he was a kind of geopolitical mastermind, but merely because he had access. Manhattan was his platform, and he used it to…
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