Army Colonel Removed From U.S. Joint Chiefs Staff Over Israel Criticism
June 21st, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
A United States Army colonel has been removed from his position on the Pentagon staff supporting the Joint Chiefs after his Israel-critical social media posts were publicized by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Until this week, Army Col Nathan McCormack led the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Levant and Egypt branch. That team is part of the Joint Staff J5, which proposes strategies, plans, and policy recommendations to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
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Here are the published comments that led to McCormack’s removal:
May 2025: “Netanyahu and his judeosupremacist cronies are determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land.”
June 2024: “The more Israel’s death cult escalates toward Hezbollah, the more we will see show-of-force attacks like this and 13 April.”
June 2024: “The U.S. has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior.”
May 2024: Amid talk of pushing Gaza residents into other countries, McCormack wrote, “[Israel] wants to expel them and cleanse ‘Eretz Israel’ of ethnic Palestinians.”
April 2024: “I’ve lately been considering whether we might be Israel’s proxy and not realized it yet. 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.”
Oct 2023: “I agree that Israel has an absolute right to respond militarily, and that civilians may legally be caught in the crossfire, but you are ignoring the requirement of proportionality. Israel’s responses always (always—not hyperbole) disproportionately target Palestinian civilians.”
Who removed him?
Was he doing a good job? If so, why not keep him at it? Or did he want to resign, but they preferred to fire him, taking the opportunity to signal that they are totally committed to Israel?
Assuming that those quotes aren’t false flags and his removal is only what they say it is, they are foolish to send away this knowledgeable and experienced person who sees things in the situation that they are blind to and has the commitment to his job to tell them what they don’t want to hear.
These guys with their heads stuck in the sand have more responsibility than they are worthy of.