an. 21 charges including rape and human trafficking. Do you think that's all real? Probably. Because the things that they've talked about publicly would be pretty close to evidence for some of these crimes. So I don't know. I think it's a combination of there's probably something political going on, but at the same time, there may be enough evidence that they're in real trouble. So we'll see.

Well, Israel has actually deployed into real action and used the Iron Beam laser, it's called. So for a cost of something like $5 per shot, it can take a missile or a drone out of the sky. So the expensive way to do it was to fire a rocket at the rocket. So your defense against the rocket would be as expensive or more expensive than the rockets that are coming in. But they just changed that. So now they can take your rocket out of the air for five bucks and then just shoot another one. So they don't have to wait to recharge. They basically can just shoot all day. $5 a rocket.

And then they've confirmed that they killed the second Sinwar. Remember there was a head of Hamas whose name was Sinwar. Well, apparently his brother took over and so they've killed the brother. So they're two for two on killing Sinwars and they've just confirmed that they got the second Sinwar.

There's some more news on Israel because Israel is heating up. Something might be getting ready to happen there in terms of Iran. But the former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is not happy with his own government and he's essentially accusing them of war crimes and he says that they're involved in a war of annihilation with indiscriminate, limitless, cruel killing of civilians in Gaza. Now, when I report this stuff, I remind you, you're not hearing my opinion. I'm just telling you what's happening. So as I've said before, whoever has the power is going to be accused of war crimes. Will they be doing war crimes? It's not up to me to decide. You all know the situation. If one side is hiding among its civilians, there's going to be more civilians killed. There's just no way around it. So I'm not saying it's good or bad. It's not for me to judge it. I'm just saying that from a self-defense perspective, Israel is pursuing its self-interest. And that self-interest is not really good for the civilians of Gaza, but it's not for me to judge. I'm just reporting.

Meanwhile, this is interesting. CNN had the most recently freed Israeli hostage who said that his captors were terrified of Trump and they wanted Kamala Harris to be elected president. But as soon as Trump got into office, he says that the captives were treated better because they didn't want to get Trump mad. And now that's interesting. Quote, "Everything changed once Trump was back in the headlines. When he became president, the way they treated us changed. And they got more food, they were treated better, they stopped cursing at them, stopped spitting on them." Now that's pretty amazing.

Anyway, Trump has confirmed that he told Netanyahu of Israel to hold off on attacking Iran because he thinks he is close enough to some kind of a deal that that would ruin his negotiations. I don't believe that there's going to be any kind of a deal. But it looks like they're playing good cop bad cop. So it looks like Trump is trying to act like he's the one just negotiating. "Oh, I think we can get a deal here. I don't want anybody to die." Meanwhile, Israel is reportedly getting ready for unilateral strikes, doing the strikes on at least one place, if not more, without the United States. In other words, attacking Iran without the United States.

Now you might say to yourself, how popular would that be? Well, the Rasmussen polling people have an answer for you. 57% of US voters would support military action by the US to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program. A solid majority of Americans are in favor of direct American military action against Iran. Does that surprise you? That kind of surprises me. I thought it would be less than 50%. But put it all together. And then one other fact. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar have told Trump that they oppose military strikes. So those would be the countries that are most likely to be part of, let's say, the Abraham Accords, the ones we want to be on our side. So they're against it and Trump's against it and much of the world is against it. But weirdly the American public doesn't seem so against it. So if 57% of American voters would be in favor of America being part of a military attack, don't you think they'd be even more in favor of Israel doing it without us because they'd presumably get something like the same benefits, but the US would be less culpable.

So here's what it looks like. It looks like they're setting up a good cop bad cop situation. If I had to predict, I would predict that Israel is going to do the attack unilaterally and Trump is going to be really, really, really mad and Saudi Arabia and UAE and Qatar are going to be really, really, really mad but also a little bit happy if the attack is successful and it takes out Iran's capability to make a bomb in two weeks, which is about where they are. I've got a feeling that something is brewing here that looks like not exactly what we're going to be told. So that's my prediction. My prediction is the US will not be involved in an attack and will be opposed to it. But that Israel, if they know that 57% of US voters would be in favor of the US doing the attack, I feel like they think they could get away with it. And that there would just be a lot of yelling and a lot of unhappy people. But then we would say something like, "What, you warmongering criminals? What did you just do? You just started a war with Iran?" But how'd it go? "Oh, pretty well. We destroyed their entire nuclear infrastructure and didn't really kill any civilians because we warned them it was going to disappear. So they got the people out of there." And then you'd be like, "Yeah, but you know, that's terrible, but you got rid of their entire nuclear program." "Yes." "Okay, I can live with that." Now, that's not my opinion. I'm just telling you that if that's what they're planning to do, it does look like it might work. So I'm not in favor of it because if Iran decides it's really just the United States playing coy, but the United States is just as guilty because Israel wouldn't have done it unless we at least winked at it or something. So there's a big risk. So I'm not in favor of it. But if you said, "Could they get away with it?" Maybe. Maybe they could.

And looking at Ukraine, Trump was asked the question, "Do you still believe that Putin actually wants to end the war?" And Trump said, "I'll let you know in about two weeks." Would you like to know now? Because they could just ask me. They don't really have to wait two weeks. No, Putin does not want to end the war. You don't have to wait two weeks. So I don't know what Trump's going to do in two weeks or why you really even need to wait. But I guess he's going to let the process play out a little bit. I assume there's some threats going on, meaning that Trump has sent the threat that if you don't negotiate, you're not going to be able to sell your oil anywhere and none of your oligarchs will be able to travel anywhere and stuff like that. So maybe this two weeks are just so Trump'