Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett posted to ???? on Monday, countering accusations that deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of the nation's intelligence agency Mossad.

"As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. Epstein's conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel. Epstein never worked for the Mossad," he wrote.

Bennett added, "This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don't. They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it's Israel. There's a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won't take it anymore."

Journalist Tucker Carlson responded, "You 'just won't take it anymore'? Instead of issuing threats on social media, why don't you sit down for a rational interview on Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the Israeli government? We'll reach out to your office this morning."

The feud was sparked by Tucker at a TPUSA event over the weekend asked, "On whose behalf," was Epstein working for "and where did the money come from?"

"I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American. We have every right to ask, 'On whose behalf was he working?' Now, no one's allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that's naughty. There is nothing wrong with saying that. There is nothing hateful about saying that. There's nothing antisemitic about saying that. There's nothing even anti-Israel about saying that," Carlson said.