WALL STREET JOURNAL
Can It Happen Here? Ask Tucker Carlson
Joel Engel
July 18, 2025

…Popular culture was once awash with books and movies about the Central Intelligence Agency’s omnipotence and omniscience. Those fantasies are now about the Mossad—which delivers in ways even fiction writers hadn’t imagined: exploding Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies, Iranian politicians and scientists wiped out with little harm to civilians. Whatever else you think of those ops, the Epstein theory—that Mossad would choose as an American asset a man who’d been convicted of pimping an underage girl and was supposedly pimping many more underage girls to powerful men to make them susceptible to blackmail—requires a preposterous belief in some of history’s oldest antisemitic tropes about the deviously clever puppet-master Jew. READ MORE