Obama leapt into prominence with one speech, at the Democratic convention on Tisha B’Av, 2004.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday said it was “not reasonable” to gather the Group of Eight (G8) leaders at an annual summit without the participation of strong emerging countries such as China and India.

Dutch MP Geert Wilder’s long awaited movie about Islam. Quotes from the Koran calling for war against infidels and murder is interspersed with current scenes of Islamic war and murder of infidels, and a call to Muslims to renounce jihad.

From Danielpipes.org: 10-8-07
The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the world’s most dangerous conflict – and, accordingly, Israel is judged the world’s most belligerent country.
For example, British prime minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in July 2003 that “Terrorism will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East [...]

And the US? If Israel is in a dream, the US public is in a coma.