from The Cradle
US Colonel Nathan McCormack, the head of the Levant and Egypt branch at the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate, was removed from his position this week after he criticized Washington's unwavering support for Israel on social media.
“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," McCormack said in one of several posts discovered by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) on a semi-anonymous X account allegedly linked to him.
“The US has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior,” he adds.
In another post, the senior military official calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition government “Judeo-supremacist cronies” who 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,” another post reads.
He also charged western states of going “to great lengths to avoid criticism of Israel, much out of Holocaust guilt,” and, since June 2024, referred to Israel as a ”death cult.”
In response to the JNS report, an unnamed Pentagon official confirmed McCormack “will no longer be on the joint staff while the matter is being investigated,” adding that the Defense Department is assigning an investigating officer to examine the content and its implications.
“The individual is being returned to his service while the matter is being investigated,” the US official added.
The JNS revelations coincided with a new poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist, which shows that 60 percent of US adults oppose Washington's involvement in Israel's war against Iran.
Among those who voted for Trump in the 2024 election, 53 percent say the US should stay out of the war, 19 percent support involvement, and 28 percent remain unsure.
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