On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “incredible speech” where he trashed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace and called for new Israeli elections. His counterpart, New York Times columnist David Brooks, tried to have it both ways, claiming he agreed with Schumer, but also that Schumer was helping Hamas.
Host Amna Nawaz asked Capehart, “Jonathan, you interviewed the president last week. You asked him about his red lines. Has a red line with Netanyahu now been crossed?”
Capehart claimed that he did, and “If you take Majority Leader Schumer’s incredible speech, put that on top of what the president told me last week, which was, yes, if Netanyahu crosses over into Rafah, that would be a red line for him, and that on top of…
