The MSM are ignoring or downplaying it, of course, but Barack Obama is not well-liked in Israel and is having a difficult time there. Hecklers challenged his stand/straddle/waffle on Jerusalem during his Wailing Wall visit. Democrats for McCain seemed to outnumber Obama supporters.
During a visit to the Yad Vashem Memorial, Obama was asked twice for assurances that there would be no second holocaust on his watch, and he wouldn't answer.
He was also caught lying saying something inartful about his role in the Senate:
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."
Not only is it not his committee, but he's not even a member. And he had nothing to do with the bill.
UPDATE (7/24): It gets even better. According to Power Line (via Gateway Pundit), last fall Obama opposed a similar amendment to impose sanctions on Iran (emphasis added):
During the run-up to the primaries, Senator Obama did not appear in the Senate to vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment calling on the government to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity and thus suffer the imposition of sanctions. On the day of the vote on the amendment, however, Obama issued a statement announcing that he would have voted against it. In the statement, the closest he came to addressing the merits of the amendment was his assertion that "he does not think that now is the time for saber-rattling towards Iran." The amendment passed the Senate 76-22 on September 26, 2007, with many Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Richard Durbin, and Chuck Schumer voting in its favor.
I guess he could argue that September wasn't the time for "saber-rattling," but July (when he's visiting Israel) is.
Gateway Pundit has all this and more. There must be almost ten posts just about Obama in Israel, with scores of older posts about previous stops. Don't worry about the links to specific posts above, just go to the main page and keep reading — it's your one-stop source for all the Obama trip info that doesn't make it to the evening news.
Ehud Olmert seemed to get along well with Obama. But then, he's the corrupt, cowardly leader who engineered the release of Samir Kuntar, a brutal and savage child killer and proud Islamofascist, in exchange for the mutilated bodies of two Israelis, hoping it would further the "peace process" and give "closure" to the families of the dead Israelis. Thus teaching these barbarians that they can torture and kill their captives and still use their remains as bargaining chips.
That's Kuntar below, getting a hero's welcome from his Hezbollah buddies in Lebanon. Disgusting beyond belief.
