A senior officer at the Pentagon has come under scrutiny over a series of social media posts sharply critical of Israel, its leadership, and US foreign policy in the region.
Colonel Nathan McCormack, who leads the Levant and Egypt branch at the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate, has used a semi-anonymous account to post numerous comments targeting Israeli actions and US support.
The posts, reportedly written since the 7 October 2023, have sparked outrage among pro-Israel circles in Washington. Here’s what he said:
- “Netanyahu and his Judeo-supremacist cronies are determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land.”
- “Israel’s actions over decades have prompted the accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide.”
- “The Western states go to great lengths to avoid criticism of Israel, much out of Holocaust guilt.”
- “Our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
- “The US has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior.”
- Responding to the idea of relocating Gaza’s population, McCormack wrote that Israel wants “to expel them and cleanse ‘Eretz Israel’ (Greater Israel) of ethnic Palestinians.”
- Since June 2024 he also called Israel a “death cult”
Remember during the election when the Trump admin was supposed to be good for Palestine. So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.
it's almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.
I don't remember that. I remember how people say both parties are terrible for palestinians
well we experienced different posts at different times then I know obviously it's not a homogeneous board, nowhere is, but I can tell you that the subset I dealt with did.
that being said I'm not so interested in laying blame as I am with getting people to engage with the Democratic process outside of major elections.
You're lying.
That’s ridiculous—no they weren’t. Links or it didn’t happen.
They do run deeper, and that is fundamental to Marxist historical materialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism#%22Great_man%22_history
nobody said that, and
I don't see how that's in any way relevant to an advisor being removed from his post because he ain't frothing at the mouth chanting death to all Arabs
leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience. Don't you think you're being needlessly incendiary?
Then support your “subjective experience” with Lemmy comment links of actual examples.
You libelled our community, which was incendiary.
here's the needlessly incendiary part of this exchange.
"You said this!"
"What? No I didn't!"
"How dare you debate my subjective experience!"
The only thing remotely close to this that I saw was people saying something like: "will be really funny if Trump solves that shit now after the DEM doing nothing for months"
I guess we were looking at different posts :D
No, you're just lying.
Meh I never really thought that. I thought that Trump is so erratic that anything could happen but I’m a pessimist so I expected the worst.
Literally no one said this; you're lying through your teeth because you're bitter your genocider of choice lost.