As the Biden Administration starts to go wobbly on the Israel-Hamas War with its efforts to turn four-hour temporary pauses to multiday pauses, New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour’s supposedly conservative Friday pundit praised Biden, saying “he’s done quite well.” At the same time, Brooks mourned people don’t differentiate between the types of terrorism Hamas and Fatah have historically engaged in as if that matters.

On the need to defeat Hamas and deal with the humanitarian situation in Gaza, host Geoff Bennett wondered, “What’s your assessment of the way in which President Biden has navigated these competing interests and competing pressures?”

Brooks had nothing but praise for Biden, declaring him to be more pro-Israel than the people who work for him, “Yeah, I think he’s done quite well. I think the clarion call that Hamas has to be defeated, Hamas is a threat to the region, I think he — frankly, he might be alone in his administration in feeling that so strongly, not quite alone, but he’s certainly been a force.