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BumRushDaShow

(167,834 posts)
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 04:32 AM Feb 14

Israel's Barak says he regrets knowing Epstein after documents detail their long friendship

Source: NBC News/AP

Feb. 13, 2026, 4:35 PM EST


TEL AVIV, Israel — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has apologized for his yearslong friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included regular correspondence, multiple visits to the disgraced financier’s Manhattan apartment and one to his private island. The former Israeli leader has not been implicated in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and faces no accusations of wrongdoing.

In an exclusive interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday, he said he regretted having ever known Epstein and apologized to all those “who feel deeply uncomfortable.” “I am responsible for all my actions and decisions, and there is definitely room to ask if there wasn’t room for more in-depth judgment on my part and a more thorough examination of what the details really are, what exactly happened there,” he said.

Barak appears in several documents

Barak is among several political, business and cultural elites found to have maintained long relationships with Epstein, even after his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl in Florida. Epstein died by suicide in detention in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal allegations of sexually abusing and trafficking dozens of girls.

Barak, who has previously distanced himself from Epstein, gave the latest interview after millions of pages of documents were released by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Epstein.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/israel/israels-barak-says-regrets-knowing-epstein-documents-detail-long-frien-rcna259004

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Israel's Barak says he regrets knowing Epstein after documents detail their long friendship (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 14 OP
Too bad for him... 2naSalit Feb 14 #1
Yeah, blame the dead degenerate for your perverted proclivities. Buddyzbuddy Feb 14 #2
Another "fu*k him" response Roy Rolling Feb 14 #3
I wish... 2naSalit Feb 14 #4
"Regrets" the relationship? How about being remorseful, ashamed, horrified. Irish_Dem Feb 14 #5
The lack of genuine remorse is appalling PatSeg Feb 14 #11
Exactly. He is only sorry he got caught. Irish_Dem Feb 14 #19
Sending regrets that he can no longer attend.. BattleRow Feb 14 #18
" I deeply regret that this long friendship forged over mahina Feb 14 #6
I am sure Virginia Roberts Giuffre regretted Meeting HIM. mackdaddy Feb 14 #7
How can the author of this piece say he was "not implicated"? She very clearly implicated him, without providing names, spooky3 Feb 14 #23
I call Putinfluffer, The Pedo Pimp. Bohunk68 Feb 14 #8
He just regrets getting caught Sanity Claws Feb 14 #9
May he receive everything he deserves. niyad Feb 14 #10
faces no accusations....well, he wasn't there for the food and conversation. paleotn Feb 14 #12
He doesn't regret raping children AllyCat Feb 14 #13
Does anyone think this Epstein network has ceased to exist? BattleRow Feb 14 #14
No. pandr32 Feb 14 #16
Not at all lanlady Feb 14 #28
So at a certain class are there few people to be friends with? pandr32 Feb 14 #15
Barack regrets getting caught dlk Feb 14 #17
Everyone regrets....... SergeStorms Feb 14 #20
Israel's Barak says he regrets knowing Epstein ... because he got caught. ... aggiesal Feb 14 #21
I regret knowing him. From whom have I heard that one before. They need that on a hat. twodogsbarking Feb 14 #22
This is 100% untrue waddirum Feb 14 #24
Yeah, I'm sure he regrets Deep State Witch Feb 14 #25
Oh boo hoo. greatauntoftriplets Feb 14 #26
He was the unnamed prime minister lanlady Feb 14 #27

2naSalit

(101,475 posts)
1. Too bad for him...
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 05:05 AM
Feb 14

One of his victims, rest her soul, has already described what he did to her on several occasions. You can't get ahead of a horse that has left the barn years ago.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,377 posts)
2. Yeah, blame the dead degenerate for your perverted proclivities.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 05:10 AM
Feb 14

Sounds like someone else we know.
Pigs, every single one of them. No offense to pigs intended.

Roy Rolling

(7,551 posts)
3. Another "fu*k him" response
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 05:17 AM
Feb 14

His apology to those who “feel deeply uncomfortable”?

Yeah, that’s it. Chummy relationships with pseudo-foreign operatives, pedos, and American oligarch-wannabes by the Israeli Prime Minister hurts my feelings.

So, might I add “sociopath” to his lengthy résumé. He just doesn’t get it.

2naSalit

(101,475 posts)
4. I wish...
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 05:32 AM
Feb 14

That all these pedos and rapists would end up suffering from exactly the same abuse they inflicted on their victims.

Exactly the same abuses.

Irish_Dem

(80,590 posts)
5. "Regrets" the relationship? How about being remorseful, ashamed, horrified.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 06:00 AM
Feb 14

Last edited Sat Feb 14, 2026, 07:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Guess that is a bridge too far for child rapists.

PatSeg

(52,750 posts)
11. The lack of genuine remorse is appalling
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 09:44 AM
Feb 14

"Regrets" reads more like he is only sorry he got caught.

mahina

(20,570 posts)
6. " I deeply regret that this long friendship forged over
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 06:27 AM
Feb 14

Many years of brutality has been exposed”.

Fix it!

(Not you OP)

mackdaddy

(1,963 posts)
7. I am sure Virginia Roberts Giuffre regretted Meeting HIM.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 06:34 AM
Feb 14

Since she said he attacked her so violently Maxwell/Epstein had to take her to the hospital afterward per her book.

spooky3

(38,462 posts)
23. How can the author of this piece say he was "not implicated"? She very clearly implicated him, without providing names,
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 03:01 PM
Feb 14

as I understand it. If the author means he's never been charged, well, neither have a lot of other people named in the documents, but that does not mean that they are innocent.

Bohunk68

(1,452 posts)
8. I call Putinfluffer, The Pedo Pimp.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 06:36 AM
Feb 14

That is what he is and what he should be called, but I have been told by some web sites that is against community standards. Tells you just what the "standards" are, nothing more than protecting the pedophiles and their pimps.

Sanity Claws

(22,386 posts)
9. He just regrets getting caught
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 07:49 AM
Feb 14

Virginia Guffrie (spelling?) indicated that he raped her violently. That is not regretting a friendship. He participated in the criminal acts and regrets getting caught.

AllyCat

(18,694 posts)
13. He doesn't regret raping children
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:14 AM
Feb 14

But definitely regrets getting caught.

This is what this sounds like to me.

SergeStorms

(20,287 posts)
20. Everyone regrets.......
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 01:11 PM
Feb 14

knowing people or doing things who get caught. Well........................................almost everyone.
Except for The Big Orange Fascist Pig. 🐖 He has no moral compass; empathy, sympathy, sincerity, shame, fairness, they're completely foreign to him and are looked at as weaknesses. His mind hasn't progressed one iota since he was a teenager.
What a wasted life. He only views success as money and power. I wouldn't trade places with him for all of his ill-gotten gains.

aggiesal

(10,685 posts)
21. Israel's Barak says he regrets knowing Epstein ... because he got caught. ...
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 01:56 PM
Feb 14

There I fixed it.

waddirum

(1,005 posts)
24. This is 100% untrue
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 03:04 PM
Feb 14

“The former Israeli leader has not been implicated in Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and faces no accusations of wrongdoing.”

He was accused of rape by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman-says-epstein-forced-her-to-have-sex-with-former-pm-barak/

lanlady

(7,229 posts)
27. He was the unnamed prime minister
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 04:04 PM
Feb 14

In Giuffre’s memoir who got off on violence and physically abused the girls. Really badly. He was also outed in recent accounts as Epstein’s spymaster. Barak is as much to blame for these crimes as Epstein.

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