Chief Israel planner at Pentagon bashes Jewish state publicly, extensively (JNS)

Update: Fired.

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Senior Pentagon officer gets into trouble for calling Israel a death cult among other things on semi anonymous social media accounts

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.

Stuff he posted

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.”

“Israel want “to expel them and cleanse ‘Eretz Israel’ (Greater Israel) of ethnic Palestinians.”

Since June 2024 he also called Israel a “death cult”

all these arrested Mossad agents , does anybody have more details on the Modus Operandi ?

like are they Israeli Citizens that learned accent free Farsi for 20 years in deepcover super agent stylo - Or are these like hired thugs via the internet ?

Wreckage of a downed Israeli Hermes drone in Isfahan

To change the mood a bit, some news from our favourite hellscape on earth, Ukraine.

• Russians have established a sizable buffer zone in Sumy Oblast, and are now just ~20km from Sumy City itself. They definitely won’t go for the city though, the plan seems to be to entrench in the massive forest next to the city and start harassing AFU groupings inside the city with smaller drones.

• Russians have officially crossed into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the direction of the town of Novopavlivka. Entering Dnipropetrovsk means that Russians can now outflank the bigger Ukrainian fortifications in the south from both the north and the east, which will be vital if Russia ever goes on the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction.

• The noose around both Konstantinivka and Pokrovsk-Myrnograd is getting tighter and tighter after a smaller AFU collapse in the section in between the cities. The summer will likely see a Russian offensive towards Rodynske or Bilytske north of Pokrovsk, and Toretske north of Konstantinivka, which will effectively put both cities under operational encirclement with no actual roads for resupply.

• Manpower issues for the AFU in general are becoming very obvious at this stage, and they’re unable to plug all holes at once like they could a few months ago. They managed to stop the bleeding near Lyman a few weeks ago, but that came with the cost of losing significant ground near Toretsk, Siversk, Konstantinivka and in the north near Sumy. Russians are now doing small pushes across the whole front except Kherson and north of Kharkov, which is just too much for the AFU to handle. To stop the breakthrough near Pokrovsk a few months ago, they rotated some of the units that were active in the former Kursk occupied zone. The result was that Russian advances slowed down near Pokrovsk, but Russians were suddenly able to seize an important chunk of the Kursk-Sumy border region.

Norway’s Labour government will implement a national ban on trade with companies that facilitate Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. This comes as a result of the socialist left party’s negotiations on a revised state budget, and continuing pressure from the norwegian confederation of trade unions (LO).

Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund has continually dragged its feet on the issue of excluding companies that facilitate and profit from the occupation of Palestine from the wealth fund’s portfolio (such as it did with Russia in 2022), even though finance minister (and former NATO chief) Jens Stoltenberg has admitted under oath that he has the power to do so at any moment.

Machine translated article

Via Al Mayadeen

According to Turkey’s Doğru Haber newspaper, Israeli warplanes violated Turkish airspace, triggering an immediate military response.

Alert levels were raised, as Turkish Air Forces scrambled F-16 jets and issued radio warnings that ultimately forced the Zionist aircraft to retreat.

According to the newspaper, Turkish forces intensified monitoring along the eastern border using round-the-clock early warning systems.

Doğru Haber described the Israeli breach as a serious escalation, warning that the war is no longer confined to the region but now directly threatens Turkey’s national security. The newspaper suggested the Israeli airspace violation may have been a calculated move to test Turkey’s air defense capabilities.

I don’t understand this at all

I think the last couple of years have really shown what a pathetic POS Zelensky and co are. Like, they are literally sacrificing the future of their entire country and its people for a proxy war that even their master, America, has grown bored of.

If it wasn’t glaringly obvious back in 2022, it’s basically a confirmed fact now that the entire conflict is one giant American scheme to weaken Russia and shackle the EU to the USA. Seeing daddy America divert everything to the genocidal entity and forgetting Ukraine should be a gigantic slap in the face to anyone still actually stupid enough to think that this conflict is about muh freeDUMBs and stopping evil Putler.

There is a 0% chance that Ukraine will join NATO or that America will militarily intervene on the side of Ukraine (LOL), and even joining the EU is a distant fantasy. Zelensky’s 1940s Nazi collaborationist fantasy of Ukraine being the “Israel of Europe” and the imperial core’s new attack dog will never ever happen because Ukraine will never be as valuable as Israel is. America is literally on the verge of starting a new disastrous and unpopular war (Even MAGAts are split over this one) over Israel’s unquenchable bloodlust. It’s both truly sad and pathetic to see idiots laud Zelensky as a great leader while he is sending generations of men into the meat grinder as a kind of advertisement of Ukraine’s servility and bootlicking skills to the West. All while Blackrock literally steals everything that’s remotely valuable in the entire country.

Lol NYT columnist only just learned israel has nukes from mission impossible 9

So no American involvement yet?

Interesting set of commentaries. They are incredibly harsh towards Iran, but from a realpolitiks perspective:
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1935021769762451584
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1934358798904541316
https://nitter.net/PandemicTruther/status/1933980879996752224

My comments assuming the massive long threads are true:

1. The reformers have sold Iran down the river. They have done a whole lot harm, partially due to betrayal and partially due to general dumbassery on account of being useless libs. A lot of them need to be swinging from cranes, starting with this shithead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Javad_Zarif Seriously, go read the article. It has charming sentences like “Even though the United States did not make a promised reciprocal goodwill gesture at the time, Zarif remained committed to improving ties.”

2. As soon as the West accuses a country of having WMDs, that country is now on a timetable. It has to get WMDs and turn the West’s otherwise baseless accucation into a self-fulfilling prophecy or it will be destroyed. I think Iran tried to pivot the accusation into a form of strategic ambiguity, but like everyone here has said, they should’ve acquired nukes by any means necessary.

3. China will never militarily support Iran. That’s Pakistan’s job. China is the carrot while Pakistan is the stick. 80% of Pakistan’s weapons come from China after all, so any military action due by Pakistan should be understood (and is being understood) as a military action done by China. If China truly doesn’t want Pakistan to militarily intervene in Iran, a single phone call is all they need to get Pakistan to stand down. Any potential military action done by Pakistan against the Zionist entity would have been vetted and cosigned by China. I would not put it past China to officially condemn Pakistan should Pakistan intervene. But it’s all kayfabe.

As an aside, I really hope they’re not some anti-vaxxer crank lol

How come Israel doesn’t fire ballistic missiles the way Iran does?

A lot of talk about the Fattah-1 missile given the latest Iranian statements. I guess they were waiting for some night time footage of an impact before releasing a statement.

In truth, it’s not the first time this missile has been used during this round of the conflict, Fattah-1 booster stages popped up in Syria a day or two ago. Images here. Ansarallah/Houthis in Yemen have also fired Fattah-1 missiles at Israel, images of that here. It also saw extensive use during Operation True Promise II last year October.

Fattah-1 is a Maneuverable Re-entry (MaRV) capable ballistic missile. What makes it different from other MaRV capable ballistic missiles with the range to it Israel, like the Kheibar Shekan series and Qassem series, is the inclusion of a thrust vector control rocket motor on the MaRV itself, with 30-40 seconds of burn time. This can be used to improve terminal flight performance (higher speeds or longer glide phase), or to allow exoatmospheric maneuvers to be performed for 30-40 seconds, you need rocket power to maneuver when outside of the earth’s atmosphere, there is no air for the control surfaces to work.

Fattah 1 MaRV.

If you want a video of how MaRV capable ballistic missiles like Fattah-1 look in action, I’ve only found one that fully showcases it, from Iran’s Operation True Promise II October attack on Israel, showing MaRVs performing pull up maneuvers, level flight, and then diving towards the target. Then a second phase of more conventional ballistic missiles approaches (at around 1:04 at much higher altitude), showing the difference. It’s actually quite an interesting video that went under the radar in regards to this.

Twitter link for video

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A 27 page document detailing all the different types of ballistic missiles

Fattah-1 would be a “category 4” system here according to the document.

Imam Hossein University, a public university in Tehran, was hit by Israeli airstrikes.

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