Written by Tyler Durden
The Colonel of the United States Army was removed from his post in the Pentagon Staff supporting the College of Joint Chiefs of Staff after his critical entries on social media were published against Israel au Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)). Until this week Army Colonel Nathan McCormack led a branch of the Joint Chiefs of Staff College in Levant and Egypt. This squad is part Joint J5 Staff, which proposes strategies, plans and political recommendations to the Chair of the College of Joint Chiefs of Staff. Within hours of the Tuesday study JNSMcCormack was removed from his post, and a Pentagon authoritative He said JNS:
"This individual has been returned [armies] while the case is being investigated... The information on the X account does not reflect the position of the Joint Staff or the Department of Defense... Our global alliances and partnerships are crucial to our national security, strengthening our collective defence, deterrence and operational coverage.
Here is publishedcomments that led to McCormack's removal.
May 2025.: "Netanjahu and his Judeosupremacy mates are determined to prolong conflict for their own purposes: either to stay in power or to annex the earth."
June 2024 r.: "The more Israel’s cult of death It escalates towards Hezbollah, the more we will witness attacks like a show of force like this and April 13."
June 2024: "The United States was not an honest broker. In the overwhelming majority we have enabled Israel to behave badly."
May 2024: Among talks about pushing the people of Gaza to another countries, McCormack wrote: "[Israel] wants to drive them out and clear 'Erec Israel' from cultural Palestinians".
April 2024"Last time I wondered if we could be Israel's proxy and I didn't realize it yet. It's our worst soy boy. We have virtually nothing of this "partnership" but the hostility of millions people in the mediate East, Africa and Asia.
October 2023: "I agree that Israel has the absolute right to a military consequence and that civilians can legally fall into the crossfire, but you ignore the request of proportionality. Israel's answers always (always – do not exaggerate) are disproportionately aimed at Palestinian civilians."
Report JNSWhich led to McCormack being removed from J5, did not give no indication of how his semi-anonymous posts drew the attention of the Pro-Israeli newspaper. Until his death in 2021, zealously pro-Israeli billionaire and mega-partaker of the run Sheldon Adelson was the largest single JNS donor. Sole Article JNS included an unfavorable quote from another organization funded by Adelson, the Foundation for Democracy Defence, which, despite its mostly sounding name, stated in its first study on the position of taxation exemption that its aim was to "improve Israel's image in North America".
McCormack's posts were published on X under an account utilizing the name "Nate" and nickname "@mick_or_mack", with a profile that utilized a cartoon version of himself. His account no longer existsbut respective of his posts can inactive be viewed through links to online archives. McCormack did not prosecute full anonymityBecause he erstwhile published photo Meritorious Service Medal certificate with his full name. In May answered user X: "I am the head of the Israeli Joint J5 Staff Branch".
Pentagon reported JNSThat another officer was assigned to "take the case," but It's not clear if McCormack violated any rules of the army.. W social media guide The branch reads that "soldiers are encouraged to express their opinions about the online and offline political process". He advises soldiers to "avoid the usage of titles, insignia, uniforms or symbols of the Department of defence in a way that might propose a Department of defence sanction or support for content on their individual website". McCormack's profile contained a reservationThat his posts "represent neither the Department of defence nor any of his elements". On the another hand, 1 of his posts can be read as assigning a position to the Department of defence as wrote:
"With the planet wellness Organization and the United Nations, We (Department of Defense, Department of State and the U.S. Intelligence Community) consider the data of the Ministry of wellness of Gaza mostly reliable (although not precise), but most likely little than they were originally due to general demolition and chaos in Gaza".
Even if he was spared any formal discipline, it seems that The chances of McCormack returning to his position in J5 staff are slim. In addition to the overall impact on US policies and personnel, Israel has a past of strong presence straight at the Pentagon. This is how erstwhile Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – who served as Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion – described what he witnessed:
Born in Dallas and postgraduate Texas A&M, McCormack was called up to service as an infantry lieutenant just 2 months after the United States invasion of Iraq. under false pretext that Saddam Hussein is working on atomic weapons. erstwhile the United States considered this invasion, Benjamin Netanyahu said in Congress:
"If you remove Saddam, I warrant it will have a immense affirmative consequence in the region".
McCormack was later sent to Iraq, where he surely witnessed the complete emptiness of Netanjah's claims and the disastrous consequences of action on their basis. due to the fact that the Pentagon was active in considering joining another mediate East war in almost identical the conditions, Colonel McCormack's contrarian position may have been peculiarly valuable at specified a crucial moment.
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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
