Epstein Files: A Corrupt Elite Governs the World Without Accountability!

From Jeffrey Epstein's files, scandals that make one cringe are revealed every day, and it feels like you are in front of a Hollywood movie crafted by the imagination of a director skilled in thrillers and absurdity. The absurdity is not only due to the exposure of these scandals but also in the fact that the head of the American empire involved in the Epstein files continues to work indifferently, or pretends to be indifferent. Some go so far as to say that one of the reasons for preparing to launch a new aggression against Iran is to divert attention from this scandal, from which there is no escape once the U.S. Department of Justice has released these files after significant pressure and a long period of time.

This file is not new; the implicated Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced for sexual scandals years ago and committed suicide in prison in 2019. However, the startling and shocking new aspect is the exposure of the involvement of significant political, financial, and artistic elites in these crimes, as well as the disclosure of the suicide victim's connection to the Israeli Mossad, which adds fuel to the noisy debate within America regarding the dominance of Zionism over U.S. foreign policy, especially regarding the Palestine issue and the horrific crimes committed against it.

The issue is not about a deviant person with an isolated criminal network, but about a complete system that provided protection, complicity, and silence for one of the most horrific models of exploitation, simply because the perpetrator/criminal was part of the elite. He was wealthy, influential, and connected to circles of power and money.

The return of Jeffrey Epstein’s files to the forefront was not a fleeting media event, nor merely a delayed moral scandal, but a case that exposes the deep structure in which the world is governed today. What has been disclosed was not only the scale of the crimes but the protection network that surrounded them: the silence of institutions, the complicity of elites, and the suspension of the law whenever it approached centers of power. Here, we are not talking about an individual deviation, but a complete system whose owners feel they are above morality and above punishment.

The Epstein case is not just a sexual morality issue, but a political one par excellence; sex and the exploitation of minors were harnessed for political purposes and to enhance influence. It reveals a global elite that sees itself as superior and treats the law as a tool for managing others, not as a constraint on itself. An elite that knows how to use money, politics, intelligence, and media, where crimes are not managed as mistakes, but as functions within the power system.

The most dangerous aspect of this case is not what happened, but what was accepted. If the global system can coexist with the exploitation of minors when the perpetrator is part of the elite, then the logical question becomes: how will this system deal with entire peoples classified outside the circle of the complete human being? Thus, the transition from Epstein to Gaza is not a populist leap, nor to any non-Western state, but rather a logical transition within the very moral system.

Western systems have long presented themselves as guardians of liberal democracy: separation of powers, judicial independence, freedom of the press, and human rights. And to avoid straying too far into the absolute condemnation of liberal democracy, which represented a leap in political development and the management of societies and international relations, what recent decades have disclosed is the disintegration of this structure from within. These principles were not officially abolished, but emptied of their substance and turned into slogans.

Over time and as controls eroded, and elites deteriorated, the separation of powers transformed into a distribution of roles within the elite itself; the judiciary becomes independent when issues do not touch the essence of power; the media is no longer a supervisory authority but a partner in producing the official narrative; and parliaments are often called upon to embellish decisions made in advance in the name of national security or supreme interest.

In this context, the Epstein case becomes a model for the transformation of liberalism from a rights system to a system of immunities. The law is not applied equally but is managed according to the balance of power. What is granted immunity at the center is granted absolute capacity for violence at the peripheries. The truth is that what emerged after World War II from a system of values and controls was not solely derived from the pains brought on by World War II, but was essentially a reflection of the balance of power that prevailed at that time, and thus the law was applied according to the balance of power; we saw a witness from his ilk, Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister, at the Davos conference, exposing the lie that covers the global system formed since World War II.

Immunity at the Center and Genocide at the Peripheries

The same logic governs the Western stance on Gaza. The systems that have failed - or refused - to hold a criminal elite accountable within their societies are the same ones that disable international law and empty the concepts of genocide and war crimes of their meaning when Israel is the perpetrator.

Gaza is not a humanitarian tragedy separate from context but a natural result of a hierarchical global system, where humanity is divided into classes. In this system, the life of a Westerner or ally is considered fully valuable, while the life of a Palestinian is seen as manageable, sacrificial, or linguistically and politically erased.

Here, the Western silence is not an ethical failure but a political function. Acknowledging the complete humanity of the Palestinian threatens the very foundation upon which the colonial system stands and reopens historical files: slavery, genocide, and the plundering of peoples in the name of progress.

In Palestine, this decline reaches its peak. Israel is not merely an allied state but a genocidal colonial project built on racial superiority, the denial of humanity, and a dual legal system - a complete apartheid - and yet it is classified as "the only democracy in the Middle East."

This contradiction is not a misdescription but an expression of a deeper truth: Western liberalism has never been universal. It has historically coexisted with colonialism, genocide, and apartheid because it was built on a separation between those recognized as human and those managed as subjects of control.

The Palestinian, in this classification, is not a complete political self, but a security problem or a demographic threat or a civilizational obstacle. Hence, his killing, starvation, and destruction of life become actions that can be ethically justified within a discourse that claims to defend values.

Managing the Moral Filth

In this framework, the accusations and reports regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s relations with intelligence networks, including the Mossad, emerge not as a scandalous detail, but as part of a broader logic in which dirty work is managed out of the spotlight. Intelligence, historically and as many documents reveal, does not only collect information, but manages networks of blackmail and influence that protect elites and tie them to major political projects.

The system that accepts the violation of bodies in secrecy is the same one that accepts genocide in public. The difference is only in the level of visibility and the scale of victims.

Another Opportunity for Peoples at the Moment of Falling Masks

This exposure, however horrific, does not only carry the implication of decline, but opens a rare historical window for revolutionary and democratic forces and peoples' movements around the world. When masks fall, and ruling elites are revealed as intertwined layers of money, fame, and power, they lose their capacity for the moral pretense that has long formed the source of their symbolic strength. The erosion of the legitimacy of these elites - morally and politically - creates a void that can only be filled by the rise of radical alternatives that redefine justice, freedom, and human dignity outside the logic of privilege and exception.

One may argue that these elites no longer care about morals and controls. This is true, but the more important aspect is the role of oppositions and peoples, not only the peoples of the world but the peoples of the Arab world, who have always condemned their leaders' connections with those imperialist racist elites, in the struggle to upend these elites.

Yes, this moment provides another opportunity, in its continuous effort, to rebuild a global liberatory discourse that does not beg for recognition from the existing system, but confronts it at its core: as a system based on structural inequality and the plunder of peoples, and the management of violence through "legal" institutions. The connection between Epstein and Gaza, between the corruption of elites at the center and genocide at the peripheries, enables peoples' movements to unite across struggle arenas: from resisting colonialism and racism to dismantling the authority of globalized capital, to reclaiming politics from the grip of oligarchies.

In this horizon, Palestine no longer becomes merely a matter of moral solidarity, but a universal political lever that exposes the nature of the global system and grants the struggles of peoples a common language to confront it. The conflict is no longer between states or identities, but between a humanity striving for liberation and a corrupt elite that confidently governs the world with impunity. This confidence, when broken, does not fall alone, but opens the way for another world - a world in which dignity is wrested from the hands of the superior and returned to its rightful owners: the peoples.