Times of Israel Journalist Denounces IDF Officer’s ‘Flippant Comment’ That War Will Be Over ‘When Uncle Sam Says Enough’

A Times of Israel journalist took issue with what he called a “flippant comment” by an unnamed IDF officer who claimed the war between Israel and Hamas will be over when the United States says it’s over.

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing asked journalist Haviv Gur what he thought of the quote that appeared in a Sky News report.

“I want to ask you a little bit about something that was reported by Sky News Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall, who started by saying he’d talked to a senior IDF official over the weekend,” Jansing said.

She then read from the article: “Quote, ‘when do you think the war will end?’ I asked the officer. The reply: ‘When Uncle Sam says, enough.’ Is that, you think, an accurate depiction of the dynamics as they are right now?” Jansing asked Gur.

“I don’t think so. I don’t know who that officer was, but I don’t think that officer represents — I think that was a flippant comment,” Gur answered, continuing:

President Biden did not allow the war. President Biden did not enable the war. President Biden prevented the war from being much larger. The Israelis had to go to this war after October 7th, after that massacre, after 240 hostages and 1,200 dead.

And what President Biden did was essentially tell the Iranians and Hezbollah in Lebanon, “Don’t expand this into a regional conflict because we’re here in force.” And, so that — giving Israel that backing — allowed Israel to actually conduct a smaller war. There isn’t — I don’t — in my estimation of Israeli psychology right now, there isn’t a capacity of America to actually tell Israel —Israel won’t listen. It won’t listen, and I don’t think America has leverage on that point.

Gur concluded that, “You can expect this war to expand, and the best America can do is try to keep it from expanding too much.”

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.