A former senior Israeli intelligence officer tells Consortium News’ CN Live! Benjamin Netanyahu can threaten to release unredacted revelations about Donald Trump in the Epstein files to get him to attack Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back at the White House again on Wednesday imploring U.S. President Donald Trump to resume their war against Iran that last June failed to overthrow the Tehran government.
After their meeting, Trump said he’s still hoping for a deal with Iran to avoid renewed bloodshed. Trump wants Iran to give up all nuclear enrichment and its ballistic missiles that can reach Israel. Iran is refusing these demands.
Netanyahu is intent on sabotaging any deal, according to our guest on CN Live!, Ari Ben-Menashe, a former senior officer in Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (MID). One way Netanyahu can do that is to threaten Trump with release of embarrassing files from the Epstein tranche, which Israel possesses, Ben Menashe says.
He also speaks about Epstein’s long career working as an intelligence agent for the MID under his handler, Ehud Barak.
Guest: Ari Ben-Menashe. Interviewers: Elizabeth Vos and Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan. Time: 1 hr. 01 min. 44 secs.
President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Blue Room. (White House/ Daniel Torok)
Hello, Djibouti is THE SEAPORT FOR EVERYONE in the Middle East. A key port for all oil and military transport by water. If you have dirt on the leader or a leader of Djibouti, you can control a lot.
FYI -On pages 116-118 & 167-168 of American Dispatches one can find so info about Ben Menashe and who he was – and he was not trusted. I cannot get the link to work but I do have a copy of American Dispatches.
For years I have referred to JJ Angleton as being a double agent something I feel would make someone really talented at counter intelligence. For the last few months I’ve seen J Epstein as being one very rare individual, a human anomaly. His advanced abilities coupled with vast amounts of good data in the for of great information relating to the story here reveals J. Epstein arrived hat a high station of achievement operating as a successful, Israeli triple agent. Then Zionist Karma arrived.
Ari-Ben-menashe seems to agree.
Bob Parry wrote this about Ari Ben-Menashe which we just republished:
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Just finished the Who is Ari Ben-Menashe from your link , got it up today. One of the unexpected surprises was Brian Barger both passed away at age 68 from pancreatic cancer Bob in 2018 and Barger 2020 is this correct?
I believe Ben-Menash generalizes at times, after what I’ve learned this AM I have little trouble believing every word he says.
I hope you received and processed what I found about J. Epstein’s studies at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences – that Mathematical Physiology thing.
Yes that is true about Brian Barger.
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If Bibi threatens to reveal Trump’s crimes, Trump should threaten Bibi that he would destroy Israel, flatten it.
But before that… The Trumpites should inform Israel that not only will no more American tax dollars be going to the Apartheid-practicing pariah state, we will demand prompt repayment from Israel (with interest!) & its supporting rich Zionists for ALL U.S. aid, retroactively. If the Zionist zealots refuse, *then* attack Israeli’s military installations (not civilian infrastructure).
Good idea!
Make sense….
Please transcribe this whole tape before it gets removed
too much credit is given to Netanyahu for controlling U.S. foreign policy. If the U.S. attacks Iran it will not be because of secret files. It is a distraction that works to individualize history, leaving behind the violent systems that dominate in the U.S. Trump and U.S. power have much more leverage over Netanyahu than Netanyahu has over Trump and U.S. power with a few sordid files… If Trump was involved in sordid activities it is not news…it will simply be more “Trump” in the headlines and he loves it…
Trump should have had hisCIA hit squad take out Netanyahu years ago.
So true. Bibi the Butcher is a bloodthirsty beast, a war criminal.
hit squad?
that reads as though you condone killing people
as a legitimate means of pursuing political aims.
could withholding loads & loads of US funds have
served the purpose of bringing down bibi’s regime?
provided, that had been in US interest, of course.
maybe i’m naive.
Ehud Barak was gay and in love with Epstein?
In her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” (published Oct. 2025), Virginia Giuffre describes encounters with Ehud Barak. In their first encounter, Barak “raped [her] more savagely than anyone had before,” leaving her bloodied and beaten. She describes being repeatedly choked until she lost consciousness. Their second encounter, not as violent, happened on Epstein’s private jet.
So in other words you think this guy is an embellisher and not credible. On listening to all this I think you’re correct.
Robert Parry, the founder of this site, explains who Ari Ben-Menashe is.
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Barry,
Rape is not related to love. If you like to read, check out the classic academic research by Susan Brownmiller, book: Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.
p.s. and if you were confused about rape not being love before you read Nobody’s Girl, you might reset your understanding and read it again.
To co-op Netanyahu’s threat to release ununredacted revelations about Trump in the Epstein files, congress must release them as soon as possible to prevent another criminal military action by the US against Iran. The failure to do so would be tantamount to Congressional approval for war.
Excellent point.
Ben-Menashe dosen’t seem all that honest to me. Fuzzy and hesitant, a lot of “I have no idea” stuff..while being there, and
being involved.
With respect I will tell you this, #1 read the Parry story on who is Ari Ben-Menashe and #2 He actually is under no obligation to tell everyone everything he knows. He is still alive because he is a careful man who works to make his own luck. Epstein didn’t.
Kick Netanyahu into prison for crimes against humanity. The U.S. and Trump are entertaining a genocidaire. Most of the U.S. population is opposed to Israel and its genocide against Palestinians. I feel dirty whenever I see a picture of Netanyahu. He belongs in Florence forever. (And I don’t mean Italy, I mean the prison where the U.S. wanted to send Julian Assange.)
So true… And put Anthony Blinken, Randy Fine, Marco Rubio & Lindsay Graham with him (after confiscating all their assets on behalf of their victims)!
What goes on behind the curtain .If I am wrong I will profusely apologize but unfortunately I will not have to .
It is more than sad that it has come down to this .There are few that have the fortitude to tell the truth .Is this what
brings down POTUS .
Is there another word for compromised ?
Guy one would hope, a commissioner of MLB Major League Baseball once said “Hope only screws up your judgement.
You watch and see what happens when U.S. Veterans go to the pole to vote and they ae turned away because of Mr. Oranges crazy bull Sh**!
He needs to go now and the Joint Chief need to get rid of him. Put him under house arrest right now, no phones or computers and we can deal with him after his staff are place under house arrest, same treatment , no phones or computers. DO it now!