EPSTEIN AND ISRAEL: A Familial Coincidence?
An organization once led by the brother of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein can be linked to a web of high-level Israeli government officials and globalist elites.
By Andrew White
Beginning in November of 2021, I reported a groundbreaking series of stories that exposed the highly under-recognized Humpty Dumpty Institute, a shadowy nonprofit organization once run by the brother of the late and prolific sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, that had somehow managed to keep out of the mainstream news cycle despite celebrating its open and obvious relationships with the United Nations, members of Congress, U.S. Department of State, Chinese Communist Party, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, and the deceased Epstein’s madame — convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
While the organization mostly aligns itself with shameless Democrats in Congress, my aforementioned reports put HDI-affiliated senior members of the Trump White House on the defensive and had also, rather coincidentally, preceded two long-awaited Breitbart and the Washington Examiner reports that scratched the surface on the HDI’s partnership with the Chinese military-linked Taihe Institute, which, as I previously reported, alarmingly claims to have so-called “research centers” operating in the United States.
HDI’s relationship with the aforementioned actors remains cause for great concern, but the rare and few mainstream reports on the organization have failed to touch on yet another alarming supposition — that the organization, along with its current and former management, are linked to the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Other prominent names that surface through this bizzare globalist conglomerate include Democrat operative David Brock, billionaires Ted Turner, George Soros, and the late David Rockefeller.
HDI Co-founder Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
The HDI was co-founded in 1988 by Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, a past chairman and co-founder of the Israel Policy Forum, a “non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the Middle East peace process in order to strengthen Israeli security and further U.S. foreign policy interests in the region.”
Sonnenfeldt over time served on the IPF alongside the likes of Charles Bronfman, the uncle of Clare Bronfman, the Seagram’s liquor heiress who was sentenced to more than six years in prison for her role in the Nxivm sex-slave cult.
Sonnenfeldt holds an Honorary Doctorate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel and appears to be a distinguished figure among the community. His achievements were previously remarked as coming from both Ben Gurion University and “the State of Israel” itself.
Along with serving as Vice Chairman of the Israeli university, Sonnenfeldt has also had an auditorium and medical school erected in his family’s name.
Sonnenfeldt served on the Board of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a group described as a key faction of the Israel lobby in the United States, which has, or at one point, has had former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Canadian-American billionaire investor and media proprietor Mortimer Zuckerman, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ex-Israeli Defense Force intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, among others, listed on its Board of Advisors.
The Washington Institute was at one point described by Harvard University’s Professor Stephen Walt as consisting of “groups that work openly to influence American policy in a pro-Israel direction,” is also noted for its tight proximity to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, an organization aligned with the ‘Democratic Majority for Israel,’ a Super PAC to which Sonnenfeldt had contributed $25,000 to in December 2019.
Along with his own personal links to Israel, Sonnenfeldt appears to hold familial links to Israel.
HDI Co-founder Michael Sonnenfeldt – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute.
In Seymour Hersch’s 1983 book, The Price of Power, Sonnenfeldt’s uncle, Helmut ‘Hal’ Sonnenfeldt, dubbed “Kissinger’s Kissinger,” was described as having close ties to Israel.
Hal Sonnenfeldt was a also member of the Atlantic Council and Defense Policy Board.
“An FBI wiretap at the Israeli Embassy in Washington picks up Richard Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson (D-WA), discussing classified information with an Israeli official. This is the second time Perle has been involved in providing classified information to Israel. This data was given to Perle by National Security Council staff member, Helmut ‘Hal’ Sonnenfeldt, who has been under investigation since 1967 for providing classified documents to the Israelis,” wrote Hersch.
Further information on the accusations against Sonnenfeldt’s uncle with regards to his classified information investigation can be found within Senate confirmation hearings, described in a 1973 report by the New York Times.
In addition to his personal and familial ties to Israel, the younger Sonnenfeldt’s father, Richard Sonnenfeldt, was a member of the neoconservative think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations.
The apparently distinguished fellow has also boasted relationships with billionaire David Rockefeller, as well as former Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, whom he served as co-chair to his 2004 campaign.
In the realm of American politics, Sonnenfeldt’s financial contributions are almost exclusively given to Democratic candidates.
Other notable donations made by Sonnenfeldt include the $100,000 contribution given to billionaire David
Brock’s American Bridge 21st Century Super PAC in 2018.
Lieberman and Sonnenfeldt would both serve on the Board of Directors for the Center for New American Security — a think tank to which received between $100,000-$249,999 in 2020 from Sonnenfeldt’s Goldman Sonnenfeldt Foundation.
Sonnenfeldt also sits on the Board of Trustees for Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
INSS is largely known for its apparent simulations of war in the Middle East in conjunction with former commanders of the IDF Central Command, decade-long leadership by former IDF military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, staunch support for Israel’s national security, and the presentation of its annual strategic report to the Israeli President.
Among others, Sonnenfeldt’s fellow INSS trustees include Adam Milstein, once described by author Gil Troy in his book, ‘The Zionist Ideas – Visions for the Jewish Homeland,” as a contemporary leader of cultural Zionism.
Sonnenfeldt also served for decades with the Executive Council at the CIA-affiliated Business Executives for National Security (BENS), which has provided advice to the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Venture Capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
Sonnenfeldt remains on the HDI’s Board of Directors today.
HDI Founding Chairman Ralph W. Cwerman
Ralph Cwerman is HDI’s founding Chairman, and served subsequently as Director and President of the organization.
Prior to his time with HDI, he served as a Foreign Policy advisor to former Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore, Director of Research for Israel to the United Nations, as well as a senior aide and speech writer for former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ralph Cwerman (left) and Mark Epstein (center) in Sri Lanka 2007 – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute
Cwerman holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle East Studies from Tel Aviv University and was one of the select individuals picked to advise a CFR-sponsored task force chaired by globalist billionaire George Soros in 1996.
Cwerman’s links to Soros can be observed through his personal and professional relationship to the current president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Mark Malloch-Brown.
Ralph Cwerman young girl in Sri Lanka 2007 – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute
Humpty Dumpty Institute’s ties to Open Society Foundations leadership is also apparent in the case of HDI co-founder Constance Milstein, who Malloch-Brown refers to as “Connie” in a seemingly personal 2006 letter.
The HDI co-founder also appears to have ties to controversial billionaire Democrat donor Ted Turner, as does current HDI Director, Ghislaine Maxwell’s former business partner, and “dear friend”, Amir Dossal.
Similar to WEF leader Klaus Schwab, Cwerman’s letters to the United Nations’ Secretary General appear to be treated with special care, priority, and attention.
HDI Director Walter Simon Arbib
Current HDI Director and SkyLink Aviation founder Walter Simon Arbib, like his colleagues, appears to hold close ties to the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Arbib’s Skylink Aviation is known for their “deployment of peacekeepers and international humanitarian aid, including food and equipment, during war, major disasters and pandemics,” whose client list includes the UN, World Food Programme, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Homeland Security, International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Canadian Government, Red Cross, the Italian Interior Ministry, varying national governments and non-governmental organizations.
In the summer of 2013, the 19-year Israeli resident Arbib was honored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, which included a commemorative speech on his behalf by Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister at the time, Ze’ev Elkin.
The following year in 2014, the Soviet-born and educated Elkin would go on to become the Chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
“Walter comes from the school of peacemakers who understand that very often it is business and economics that lay the foundation for diplomatic and political dialogue,” Elkin said of Arbib.
HDI Director Walter Arbib – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute
“I do it in full coordination with the Israeli government,” Arbib said of his apparent philanthropic efforts.
Arbib also was reported to have worked with Israel’s Peres Center for Peace, led by former Israeli President, Shimon Peres.
According to his biography on the HDI website, Arbib serves “on the Board of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Friends of the Simon Weisenthal Centre, B’nai Brith Canada, and Counterpart International Inc.” and “is one of the founders of the Libyan Jewish Museum in Or Yehuda, Israel, a member of the Israel Policy Forum in the United States and a member of the Magna Carta Foundation in Italy,” a think tank known for taking a “strong…pro-Israel stance in foreign policy.”
Arbib remains listed as a director of the HDI, according to the organization’s website. More Israel ties.
The HDI’s Israeli government links can be further illustrated with the organization’s recent trips
to Ukraine and Uzbekistan with Jonny Daniels, who worked as a Senior Advisor to Israel’s former Deputy Minister of Defense and current World Likud Chairman Danny Danon.
Former Israeli government official Jonny Daniels alongside Republican Reps. August Pfluger, Don Bacon, Doug Lamborn, Troy Nehls – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute
Former Israeli government official Jonny Daniels attends August 2021 HDI Congressional Delegation to Ukraine alongside Republican Reps. Troy Nehls and Barry Moore – SOURCE: Humpty Dumpty Institute
Daniels, the Israeli-British founder of the Holocaust commemoration group and HDI partner organization From the Depths, was once accused by Polish paleolibertarian politician Janusz Korwin-Mikke of being a “foreign agent” or “perhaps working for Freemasons,” sent “to spy” on Poland in 2019.
Daniels denied the allegations and vowed to sue Korwin-Mikke for making the claims. Korwin-Mikke was accused of pushing conspiracy theories.
Revisiting the Ghislaine Maxwell connection
Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted sex trafficking madame Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s links to the government of Israel and Israeli intelligence are well documented.
As reported by the Daily Mail, Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell’s 1991 burial in Jerusalem with was conducted with high honors, the attendance of Israel’s Prime Minister, and multiple current and former heads of Israeli intelligence services.
“Also a British member of parliament, Robert Maxwell reportedly had ties to British intelligence, the Soviet KGB, and Mossad — and was suspected of being a double or even triple agent by British Foreign Office officials,” reported the Mail.
Rumors that Jeffrey and Ghislaine were working on behalf of the Israeli government grew after an unnamed source told Page Six before her arrest and conviction that “Ghislaine is protected. She and Jeffrey were assets of sorts for multiple foreign governments. They would trade information about the powerful people caught in his net — caught at Epstein’s house.”
“She is not in the US, she moves around. She is sometimes in the UK, but most often in other countries, such as Israel, where her powerful contacts have provided her with safe houses and protection,” the source said.
Maxwell was being “protected because of the information she has on the world’s most powerful people,” the source continued.
“It is not the first time that Epstein has been tied to a foreign intelligence service. Rumors have long circulated that Epstein secretly took videos of his rich and powerful friends having sex with underage girls, either for financial blackmail or as leverage for a foreign intelligence service,” reported the Mail.
More recently, podcast host Joe Rogan stated that Maxwell and Epstein played an integral role in an “intelligence operation” ran by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Israeli government, or a “combination of both.”
“He was bringing them to parties,” said Rogan. “Like it was an intelligence operation.”
“Whoever was running it, whether it was, the Mossad or whether it was CIA or whether it was a combination of both — it was an intelligence operation,” Rogan declared. “They were bringing in people and compromising them.”
