from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, April 20th.

So if you've been following the war news this weekend, you've been hearing about the attacks on ships by both the U.S. and Iran,

the negotiations and threats, rising costs in the United States and elsewhere from the twin

blockades and the devastation for an estimated one million civilians displaced in Lebanon

with hundreds of thousands of their homes destroyed and no longer even there to return to.

Also in some of the stories, but usually noted as a side thing, is the war for public opinion.

On this, the U.S. and Israeli governments are having opposite levels of success.

Maybe you haven't heard this.

For example, the New Yorker reports it this way. Unlike in the

United States, where the war has hurt President Trump's political standing, the war remains popular

in Israel. The article goes further, saying, quote, Jewish Israelis are opposed to a ceasefire,

despite thinking the war is not going well. And it even says this, in the New Yorker, Israeli voters are

against a ceasefire with Iran and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough. Not gone far

enough. And the Times of Israel reports there was a protest in northern Israel on Thursday,

not an anti-war protest. Those are happening too, but an anti-cease fire protest. That article quotes the mayor of Kiriatt Shimona saying,

quote, President Trump, you wouldn't let your kids live under threat. Why are you letting

our children live like this, unquote. That, of course, after Trump

pressured Netanyahu to the ceasefire in Lebanon, so Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz.

But in this country now, a new NBC News poll finds two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the war.

54% say they strongly disapprove.

A U-Gov poll finds inflation is the number one issue,

and that between his war and his tariffs,

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