In a blunt and blistering assessment of America’s foreign entanglements, former Navy SEAL and private military contractor Eric Prince told Steve Bannon during Monday’s WarRoom that he is calling for an immediate end to U.S. support for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), citing the humanitarian collapse in Gaza and what he describes as a "strategically failed” military campaign by Israel.
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Prince—known for founding the controversial security firm Blackwater—declared that the time has come for the United States to "stop paying for destruction that no longer serves a strategic purpose.”
"It’s enough,” Prince said, referring to the IDF’s relentless bombing and infrastructure demolition across Gaza. "And you know what? The U.S. should not pay for any more of this at all.”
Prince, who has a long history of involvement in high-stakes conflict zones, didn’t mince words. While he emphasized that Hamas is a legitimate military target, he warned that the current Israeli strategy is not only failing to eliminate Hamas but also destroying any moral high ground and fueling future generations of radicalization.
"They need to die,” he said of Hamas. "But the real losers are the normal people in Gaza just trying to live.”
The devastation, according to Prince, is not surgical or strategic—it’s indiscriminate and self-defeating. He noted that most of Gaza’s infrastructure has been flattened, churches have been bombed, and international sympathy is rapidly turning against Israel—and by extension, against the United States.
In a sharp rebuke to what he sees as mission creep, Prince said that Washington’s blank-check support has enabled the IDF to pursue a war plan that has become more about optics and punishment than military effectiveness.
He revealed that early in the conflict, he had offered the Israeli government a specialized plan to flood and disable Hamas’ extensive tunnel network, but the advice was ignored.
"They thought it was too hard. They went with the optics of airstrikes instead,” he said. "Now, they’re stuck in the rubble.”
Prince drew a harsh comparison between the war in Gaza and the trench warfare of World War I—"pointless, slow, and horrifically costly”—with the added risk of triggering a broader regional conflict.
He also cautioned that America is increasingly viewed as complicit in Israel’s actions, both diplomatically and militarily. With Christian churches bombed and entire neighborhoods leveled, the long-term blowback could be severe.
"This isn’t Tokyo. This isn’t Berlin. It’s a political fail that looks like moral erosion,” Prince warned.
The message to Washington was clear: it’s time to get out—financially, militarily, and diplomatically—before the damage becomes irreversible.
As calls for de-escalation grow louder on Capitol Hill and within segments of the Pentagon, Prince’s warning lands like a shot across the bow: Stop writing the checks, or be prepared to own the consequences.
Watch this full segment for of what Prince told Bannon on Monday’s WarRoom:
