New documents reveal Epstein donated to the Israeli army and funded settlements

Documents recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice have revealed that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein made donations to the Israeli army and helped fund settlement activities, Anadolu reports.

More information continues to emerge about Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of running a sex-trafficking network involving minors.

A review of tax documents he filed in 2005 shows that Epstein provided financial support to the Israeli army and to settlers who seized Palestinian land.

The documents show that on March 3, 2005, Epstein donated $25,000 to the “Friends of the Israeli Defence Forces.”

He also gave $15,000 to the “Jewish National Fund,” which finances settlers in the West Bank, in addition to $5,000 to the National Council of Jewish Women.

Email correspondence sent by Epstein on May 20, 2012, to an unnamed person reveals that he claimed “Palestine has never historically existed.”

In that message, Epstein wrote:
“Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population
after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine.”

The new documents also reveal details about Epstein’s funeral, based on testimony from an unnamed individual in an FBI document dated August 12, 2012.

The person said journalists were directed during the funeral to follow a vehicle containing empty boxes, while Epstein’s body was later transported in a different vehicle after the first car departed.

On January 31, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the release of more than three million new files to the public as part of the investigations related to Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman, was accused of operating a large network of sexual exploitation of minors, some as young as 14. He was found dead in a New York jail in 2019 while in custody.

Case files included the names of many prominent international figures, such as Britain’s Prince Andrew, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, current U.S. President Donald Trump, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, singer Michael Jackson, and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.