Terrorists kill 4 in Yerushalayim

An Israel Police spokesman has reported at least 4 killed and 13 wounded after a truck rammed into pedestrians in the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem.

MDA EMTs and paramedics reported that all four of those killed - three women and on man - are approximately 20 years of age. Of the 13 living victims, three are severely injured, one is moderately injured, and nine more are lightly injured. All were transferred to either Shaarei Zedek or Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospitals in Jerusalem.

Police units at the scene are investigating.

Yakov Kaminetzki, a volunteer with United Hatzalah's EMS ambucycle unit reported, "When I arrived at the scene I saw a number of pedestrians who were run down by a large truck near the Armon Hanatziv Promenade. Some of the pedestrians were unconscious and trapped underneath the vehicle. I requested that the dispatch and command center send additional assistance including fire and rescue services as well as additional EMS responders due to the large number of injured persons. Near the vehicle were a number of other pedestrians who had sustained various degrees of injuries some of whom were in serious and moderate condition."

SHOOTING AT Ft Lauderdale Airport .... AT LEAST 5 DEAD

Gunman in custody after shooting nine - and killing three - at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport

A gunman is in custody after a deadly shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport. 

Sources tell NBC Miami that nine people have been shot and three people have died. 

An airport spokesman said that the center of the incident was in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2. It does not appear that the shooter breached the TSA-secured area of the airport. 

Video from the airport Friday afternoon showed hundreds of passengers corralled together on the tarmac with emergency vehicles parked outside the terminal with lights flashing.  

Minutes later, he said police tol dhim there was just one shooter. By 1:30pm, the scene had settled.   

'All seems calm now but the police aren't letting anyone out of the airport - at least not the area where I am,' Fleischer wrote. 

The airport is one of the top 25 busiest airports in the nation.  

Obama Builds Wall around his new home!

President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he's building himself a wall.

We got photos of construction at Obama's soon-to-be D.C. rental. You also see construction in the garage.  It will become an office with a bathroom.

The rental will be home until Sasha graduates so the Obamas needed the property outfitted for the Secret Service and ... it needed more fortification.

BTW ... he's getting a new neighbor. Ivanka Trump and family, they are moving nearby to a rental.

J Street "ad" in the NYT thanks Obama and Kerry for speech blasting Israel

Ad in the New York Lies

J Street, the pro-two state solution American organization, took out a full page ad in the New York Times Wednesday thanking outgoing President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for their support for the two state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and for speaking 'hard truths' to Israel.

The ad calls Obama and Kerry "true friends of the State of Israel" and says that "History will applaud your courage in addressing the conflict in both practical and moral terms."

The ad goes on to quote from the speech Secretary Kerry gave last week, in which he spent most his hour-long remarks lambasting Israel for construction in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

"Friends need to tell each other the hard truths, and friendships require mutual respect...[Israelis and Palestinians] can choose to live together in one state, or they can separate into two states. But here is a fundamental reality: if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic – it cannot be both – and it won’t ever really be at peace." the ad quotes from Kerry's speech.

J Street called the speech "powerful" and "lucid," using quotes from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and claimed that most Israelis and most of the world agree with Kerry

However, Israeli leaders blasted Kerry's speech, as did Congressmen and Senators from both the Republican and Democratic parties. The governments of Russia and the UK also criticized the speech. A spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May called Kerry's criticism of the makeup Israel's government "inappropriate" and slammed its focus on only one issue - Jewish communities over the 1949 armistice lines - over all other issues.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) said after Kerry's speech that the Secretary of State "seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” adding, “This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember.”

J Street had previously praised the Obama Administration's abstention on an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council last month. J Street has also has announced its opposition to a congressional resolution condemning the UN resolution.

EU Drone Spying on Jewish Towns and IDF in Judea and Samaria

A crashed drone with a video camera that crashed Mount Hevron revealed a European Union (EU) spying operation intended to spy on and gather intelligence about IDF locations  Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

The video footage reveals that the drone was flying low over residents it crashed. Once it crashed it was recovered by residents in the area and taken to the Regavim Movement for Preservation of State Lands, where it was discovered that it was sent by the EU, in concert with residents of Arab villages to spy on Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria. The drone contained many espionage videos, some showing IDF bases and antennas.

The Regavim organization blamed this brazen act of espionage against the IDF and Judea & Samaria on the governments failure to  act against illegal Arab housing and construction in area C without permits which is forbidden by the Oslo Accords.

“What started as illegal construction continues and now is harmful to our security.” said  the head of the land division of Regavim, Oved Arad.

“For years the European Union was involved in illegal construction in Judea and Samaria. Now it turns out that EU officials, together with the Palestinians, are even documenting Israeli settlements and sensitive locations in Judea and Samaria. The Foreign Ministry must respond strongly and unequivocally against this activity, which crosses a red line and is very dangerous.”

Hollywood Values: Leftist Celebs Perform for Murderous Dictators, But Not Trump

Beyonce

As  our childish and biased media chuckles at President-elect Donald Trump's inability to attract some big name stars to perform at his upcoming inauguration celebration, there is a vital part of the story this very same media does not want to tell. The inconvenient part about how a number of these rich and famous celebrities, many of them Obama and Hillary supporters, have willingly performed in the past for murderous dictators, human rights abusers, and Russian gangsters.

Did you know that Beyoncé, who has performed live for both President Obama and Hillary Clinton, has also performed for the family of Libya's murderous dictator, the late-Muammar el-Qaddafi? For a fat seven-figure paycheck on New Year's Eve 2009, Bey belted out her hits for the Qaddafis at a lavish, champagne-soaked party. Also in attendance, her husband Jay-Z, hip-hop kingpin Russell Simmons, Usher, and Jon Bon Jovi.

The previous New Years Eve, Mariah Carey was paid $1 million to sing four songs for Qaddafi's son. In 2007, Nelly Furtado grabbed a cool $1 million to perform for the Qadaffi family.

Oh, and did you know rap superstar Nicki Minaj grabbed $2 million to perform for Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, a noted dictator and abuser of human rights?

Jennifer Lopez has reportedly earned some $10 million selling her soul to "dictators and crooks."

Sting -- say it isn't so!

This says as much about Hollywood and our political media as it does these performers.

Believe it or not, it actually works like this…

If you perform for murderers and gangsters, your Hollywood career is in no jeopardy whatsoever.

But if you jump off the Leftwing Plantation to perform for America's next duly-elected president, you will face the silent blacklist, the one where people quietly back away from you, stop calling you, and no longer consider you for various jobs.

On top of that, there will also be the unrelenting public attacks. Sing the "Star Spangled Banner" for Trump and you are an automatic Other -- an instant pariah. Immediately, many in the national media will join your show-biz colleagues to condemn you as a non-person, a sell-out, a Nazi, or worse.

No less than CNN published this warning just last week:

Celebrities shouldn't lend their fame to normalize or validate Trump's history of racism, bigotry and sexism. And by being a part of his inauguration they would be doing just that.

They would be saying it's OK Trump demonized Latinos, Muslims and immigrants. They would be telling us they are cool with his sexist remarks and mocking of a disabled reporter. And that they are not disgusted by Trump bragging in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape about his sexually assaulting women and then publicly shaming the victims of his alleged sexual misconduct who had the courage to come forward.

Translation: That's a nice career you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it…

But…

Shake your ass in a skintight outfit for the monster who shot down Pan-Am Flight 103 and its 270 passengers -- 189 of them Americans?

No problem.

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Abraham Shmailov killed sitting in a cab that was hit by a drunk driver

A person is in custody following a fatal overnight motor vehicle collision involving a cab in Brooklyn. 

Authorities say 56-year-old Abraham Shmailov Z”L was seated in the rear of a 2008 Toyota Camry when it was struck by a 2015 Infiniti near the intersection of Avenue P and West 2nd Street at 3:17 in the morning.

Shmailov sustained trauma to his body and head and was rushed to Lutheran Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The drivers of each vehicle were also taken to the hospital for treatment and are currently stable.

Peter Michael (24) of East 31 Street in Brooklyn was charged with: 

Vehicular Manslaughter 2, Criminally Negligent Homicide, DWI, DWAI (Violation)

Israeli left trying to sabotage Netanyahu........as Obama ramps up pressure on Israel

A prominent American Jewish jurist and Democratic critic of President Obama has accused the Israeli left and media of attempting to subvert the Israeli government, playing up investigations into the Netanyahu family in an effort to undo the Prime Minister’s electoral victory in 2015.

Professor Alan Dershowitz, a long-time Democrat who supported Obama until UN resolution 2334 and who is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state, attacked the recent United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria and strongly criticized the Obama administration both for allowing its passage and later justifying it in a speech delivered by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Since then, in an interview with Israel Hayom published on Sunday, Dershowitz took aim at the Israeli left and media outlets for what he described as attempts to use ongoing police investigations into the Netanyahu family to hobble the Prime Minister.

"[T]hey can't beat him through democratic means, so they're trying to use these investigations and the media to push him out of office. That would really undercut democracy. He's been elected by a proper method of election in Israel and he should be left to complete his term without interference. If there are issues they should be pursued after he leaves office.”

“I've never seen a situation where the media has been so obsessively focused on what appears to be the most trivial details -- whether a Prime Minister's wife helped care for her dying father, whether or not furniture should have been in one location or another location -- these are the kind of things that would never happen in the U.S. In the U.S., the White House pays for everything, and in Israel there's apparently a 200-page book about how you deal with costs in the Prime Minister's house.”

In its latest update, Judicial Watch, said that following Obama’s latest vacation in Hawaii, his travel costs over the last eight years have reached more than $96.9 million.

The Prime Minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, has been accused of misuse of public funds, allegedly purchasing furniture for the family’s private residence with money allocated for the Prime Minister’s Office. In addition, she was even accused by the media of not reporting the deposits on empty bottles which she returned to stores.

In a separate case, this November a report by Channel 10 suggested a possible conflict of interest in a deal negotiated by the Netanyahu government to purchase ballistic missile submarines from a German firm allegedly represented by an associate of the Prime Minister’s attorney. The deal, however, is between heads of government and went through all the proper channels.

While the allegations against the Prime Minister and his wife may or may not be valid, said Dershowitz, they must not be used to undermine a sitting Head of Government and prevent him from performing his duties, particularly during the current diplomatic crisis sparked by the UN Security Council resolution.

"The Prime Minister in this case has to work 24/7 particularly now, between now and the time when President Obama leaves office, to respond to the U.N. Security Council resolution, to the Kerry speech, to try to prevent another Security Council resolution - the idea that the Prime Minister is now going to have to be questioned about what appears to be relatively trivial incidents, really undercuts democracy."

Instead, argued Dershowitz, investigations into the alleged corruption charges should be delayed until Netanyahu leaves office. In the interim, he argues, the Prime Minister must be granted immunity from such charges.

"I think this reflects a general problem around the world when democracy is being undercut by investigations and media attacks on properly elected officials. I think there are investigations that should be delayed until after the public official, the prime minister or president of a country, finish their term of office.”

“The idea that he has to now take time from serving the people of Israel to prepare, work with lawyers, to spend hours with investigators, in what appears to be -- from everything I can see -- relatively trivial accusations; I mean, if they were serious accusations, the statute of limitations can be extended. Nobody is above the law, we all agree with that, but he can be held accountable after he leaves office. Not interfere with what's going on while he's in office. ... I think it's a mistake to be investigating the prime minister at this time. Let the investigation go forward, but the questioning should wait until he leaves office."

Daniel Friedman, Frum Former Monsey Councilman missing near Bear Mountain Bridge

New York State Police have confirmed they are searching for the body of former Ramapo Councilman Daniel Friedman who is presumed to have jumped off the side of Bear Mountain Bridge early Friday morning.

Friedman's car was found along the east side of the bridge in Cortlandt, said State Police Investigator Steven Connolly.

Although his body has not been located, Connolly said Friedman's family had been notified that he is the person they are searching for.

Currently, there are numerous agencies helping with the search that began around 4 a.m. Friday morning after video surveillance showed a person jumping from the middle span of the bridge.

"Our people have in the water for more than six hours searching for his body," Connolly said.

Friedman, a Democrat, joined the town board in 2010, hasn't been seen since police located his car.

Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, whose office is working with the state police, said the case is difficult for him since he knew Friedman well.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day said he was stunned and saddened by the apparent sudden loss Friedman.

"While we may have been at the opposite sides of the political spectrum, I can say unequivocally that in his role at the Legislature, Daniel put politics aside and always worked for the good of the people of Rockland. May his memory be for a blessing," Day said.

State police plan to continue searching the waters until they locate Friedman's body.

Happy New Year