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Pentagon suspends Israel adviser from Joint Staff after discovering posts calling Israel a 'death cult' and the country's 'worst ally' (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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”

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[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 49 points 1 month ago

I was expecting these statements to actually be controversial and not just the truth. The only one even remotely spicy is the last one.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you run on deception, you are outraged by the truth.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Only because death cult has a kind of ethereal meaning

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago

Person best placed to know what Israel is really like tells what Israel is really like

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All true

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Except the part about "Holocaust guilt". In reality, they just want to see brown people get killed.

[–] pinkapple@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

"The posts have sparked outrage among pro-foreign nation circles in Washington." Can't think of any other US ally including the no. 1 lapdog UK that would ever receive this royal treatment.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An intelligence organization that fears intelligence

[–] nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Historically, not awesome.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago

The people hated him because he told the truth.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago

Making sure your advisors only tell you what you want to hear has always gone well for past dictatorships.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 month ago

when a high officer of a death cult as the US army tells you that Israel is a death cult, you gotta believe him, game recognizes game.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

The US regime is preparing for a holy war and removing anyone who isn't a true believer from the ranks.

[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 month ago

This is how they control the narrative.

Either support Israel, or suffer the consequences.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

Refreshingly factual

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 month ago

I'll keep saying it: left unchecked, Israel will be the catalyst for WW3.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

No lies told

[+] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca -17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't remember that. I remember how people say both parties are terrible for palestinians

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.

That’s ridiculous—no they weren’t. Links or it didn’t happen.

it’s almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.

They do run deeper, and that is fundamental to Marxist historical materialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism#%22Great_man%22_history

"Great man" history

Marx rejected the enlightenment view that ideas alone were the driving force in society or that the underlying cause of change was guided by the actions of leaders in government or religion. The "great man" and occasionally "great woman" view of historical change was popularized by the 19th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) who wrote "the history of the world is nothing but the biography of great men". According to Marx, this conception of history amounted to nothing more than a collection of "high-sounding dramas of princes and states".

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I definitely saw a lot of people from ml who were saying stuff like that when trump started talking to Israel in the first week or so of his presidency. They're not representative of all of .ml, but they were quite a vocal minority
Absolutely right

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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"

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess we were looking at different posts :D

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

No, you're just lying.

[+] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca -11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience. Don't you think you're being needlessly incendiary?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience

here's the needlessly incendiary part of this exchange.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience.

Then support your “subjective experience” with Lemmy comment links of actual examples.

Don’t you think you’re being needlessly incendiary?

You libelled our community, which was incendiary.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

"You said this!"

"What? No I didn't!"

"How dare you debate my subjective experience!"

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.

Literally no one said this; you're lying through your teeth because you're bitter your genocider of choice lost.