American Christian leader Pastor John Hagee this month labeled Jimmy Carter as Israel's “enemy in America,” and demanded the former president reveal the anti-Israel sources of funding for his foreign policy research center. “I call on former president Carter to publicly disclose how much of the Carter Center's funding is coming from anti-Israel sources in the Middle East,” Hagee demanded during an address to the annual Washington, DC gathering of his new organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Hagee cited a recent article in the conservative magazine National Review that revealed Carter receives the bulk of his funding from Saudi Arabia. Carter has raised the ire of American Evangelical Christians with his recent attacks on Israel's settlement policy, defensive measures and isolation of the Hamas terrorist organization. He has long been an outspoken advocate of Israel surrendering to all Arab demands in the name of “peace.” Hagee hopes to use CUFI to harness Christian support into an effective counterbalance to the influence of Carter and like-minded enemies of the Jewish state in the American capital.

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by Hana Levi Julian-(IsraelNN.com) A four-day International Conference of Descendants of the biblical figure Aaron, the Priestly Tribe (Kohanim) and the whole Tribe of Levi to which the Kohanim are a part, begins on Sunday, July 15."Bring forth Aharon's sons... Then anoint them, just as you anointed their father, so that they will be Kohanim ("priests") to Me. It will be done so that their anointing will make them an eternal [hereditary] priesthood for all generations. Moses proceeded to do exactly as G-d had commanded him." (Exodus 40:14, 15)Throughout Jewish history and to this day, Jews are careful to note which families belong to the tribe of Levi and the priestly family of Aaron. At the special gathering this week in Jerusalem, they will learn more about their roots and discuss the latest research proving their genetic ties.The International Conference of Kohanim and the Tribe of Levi falls on the first day of the Hebrew month of Av and the beginning of the nine-day period leading up to Tisha B'Av, the second-most solemn fast day in the Jewish calendar.It is also the date on which Aharon the High Priest, brother of Moses left this world to enter the World to ...   more »

by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Syria sees the next war with Israel as involving missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and front-line guerilla warfare, an anonymous senior official in the Syrian Ministry of Defense told Defense News Weekly, in an interview appearing Monday. Syria prefers to avoid a direct, "classic" confrontation with Israel, he said. Instead, the next war will involve Katyusha rocket and ballistic missiles that will target strategic points in Israel, especially civilian infrastructure.The official said that the war will not be limited to a single strike, but will be protracted in nature. "This will be a war of attrition, which the Israelis are not good at," he explained. The conflict, he said, "will be more like a war between cities than a war on the battlefield."According to Arab affairs expert Dr. Guy Bechor, the Syrian assessment is a result of the Second Lebanon War. After that war, the Syrians understood that they do not need a large ground force to defeat Israel, but rather missiles aimed at dense Israeli population centers. For the past two years the Syrians have been engaged in massive acquisitions from Russia, after an $11 billion debt was partially forgiven by Russia in 2005, and ...   more »

By Nadav Shragai  
For the past 40 years, right-wing and religious organizations have been mourning the absence of the Temple Mount from our national and religious life in addition to the Temple's destruction. In what has become a ritual, they lament the destruction of the antiquities on the mount and complain about the impotence of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the humiliating entrance conditions and turning empty areas on the mount into Muslim prayer sites. These groups say there is a vacuum as far as sovereignty, government, law and order on Temple Mount are concerned. They say they are frustrated again and again by the authorities' lies and broken promises. They are usually right. The only problem is that the politicians, archaeologists or even the police were not the first to give up Temple Mount. The rabbis were the ones to do so, as early as 1967. Even a decade later, when Menachem Begin wanted to change the status quo on Temple Mount to enable Jews to pray there, the rabbis would not allow it. They threatened him with boycotts and coalition crises.  
When Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun complained to Begin on the goings on at Temple Mount, Begin sent him away ...   more »

Back in May, the Chief Rabbinate criticized Jewish participation in a Christian women's conference organized in Jerusalem by the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus. The issue generated controversy in the pages of The Jerusalem Post. Isi Leibler wrote an op-ed which argued that the Chief Rabbinate was wrong in its approach to the Evangelicals (June 12), while Ellen Horowitz's warned that participation in such events, where some of the organizations involved may be active in missionary work, was crossing theological red lines (June 20). As a rabbi who entered the rabbinate in June 1963 with a strong bias against any inter-faith dialogue and cooperation, and who is now so passionate about the importance of inter-religious communication and study that I have established an Institute for the furtherance of Jewish - Christian Understanding in Efrat (where many Christians have been studying the Jewish roots of their faith), I want to state clearly the reasons for the sea-change in my outlook. TO PARAPHRASE Charles Dickens in the beginning of his Tale of Two Cities: These are the best of times, and the worst of times. On the one hand, after almost 2,000 years of exile and persecution, culminating in the Holocaust, we have ...   more »

(VIDEO) During tour of Knesset, Christian leader slams US for 'Chamberlain approach'
Yaakov LappinVIDEO - The American Christian Evangelical movement, acting in the name of tens of millions of followers, has begun lobbying the American government to abandon its "Chamberlain approach" to the Iranian threat to Israel, an Evangelical leader told Ynetnews during a tour of the Knesset on Sunday. Robert Stearns is executive drector of the Eagles' Wings Ministry, a Church which hosts the Israel Experience College Scholarship Program, which sends dozens of young Evangelical college students to Israel for a three-week tour. The program has been dubbed the "Christian birthright" program, after an initiative which aims to bring American Jews to visit Israel for the first time.
Speaking to Ynetnews, Strearns said Evangelical leaders had taken a decision to pressure the US government to adopt a more agressive policy towards Iran. "I just came back from Washington DC, where there were 4,000 Christian delegates from every state in America, and we were lobbying our government on behalf of Israel and on behalf of the future of western civilization as we know it. Yes, the Evengalical Church in the US and around the world is completely standing with Israel and ...   more »

12-Point Platform
1. Our Nation
The United States is a Constitutional Republic. A Republic protects the individual's rights without regard to social or economic circumstances. We must stop classifying our citizens by socioeconomic and ethnic classes, which leads with certainty to economic and racial division. We are all Americans and we celebrate our common heritage as a proud nation of immigrants who have come together to become American citizens, building and maintaining the greatest nation on earth.
2. Take Our Enemies Seriously
Radical Islam critically threatens the interests of the United States at home and abroad. This threat is not a perception; it is openly celebrated in the streets of militant countries who proclaim their hatred of the United States and call on their citizens to live with harmful intent toward America and her citizens. The actions they have taken and the actions they vow to take must be taken seriously. If the U.S. leaves the Middle East, Iran and terrorist organizations will intensify their aggressive action and override the entire region, trampling the Palestinians along with the peoples of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, and other Middle Eastern countries. This action will certainly jeopardize and possibly destroy ...   more »

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has not ruled out a military strike on Iran, the newly appointed premier told reporters in London on Monday.
"I believe that the economic sanctions imposed on Teheran will be effective, but I wouldn't… rule out action of a different kind," he said.
In his first interview from 10 Downing St., Brown expressed hope that the United Nations Security Council will approve additional sanctions on the Islamic republic in the near future.
Asked whether he would consider an offensive that would target Iran's nuclear program, Brown said that he "isn't one of those [people] who say they rule out this option."
However, Brown said that he still thought UN sanctions were effective. "Soon, a decision will be made regarding Iran and I believe that this path will continue to be efficient," said Brown.
"The UK will do all that is necessary to strengthen these sanctions," said the prime minister.
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DEPCO systems has conducted a rigorous market study to determine the best suited RFID middleware to our operations and reached a common agreement within our organization that NCR with their NCR TransitionWorksTM software platform has the best positioned AIDC product to supports our efforts presently and in the future.
Radio Frequency Identification or RFID, is a revolutionary technology that will allow many industries to embed radio frequency microchips into their products enabling intelligence at the edge of the corporation. This method of operation has proven throughout recent years to be most efficient in managing any industry supply chain, increasing security, improving efficiency and reducing the company's OPEX justifying a strong Return On Investment (ROI).
DEPCO systems will launch at the end of 2007 the first RFID system developed in Saudi Arabia unique in function and customized solely for regional corporate requirements using the NCR AIDC middleware. Following an in-depth market study conducted over a period of 6 months, DEPCO systems will initially target the valuable goods & services markets by aiming at our clients in the jewellery business and the banking sector.
The Open architecture adopted by NCR AIDC engine allows DEPCO systems R&D team to fully integrate our RFID ...   more »

It has become apparent that the billions of US dollars annually spent on Saudi oil seldom reciprocate loyalty anymore.
The recent military figures made available to The Los Angeles Times by senior American officials state that roughly 45% of all foreign combatants in the Iraq war theatre come solely from Saudi Arabia. However, this should, in no way, be a revelation.
For years, many in the West have overtly expressed their outrage at Wahabbist odium towards religious plurality, the backwards indoctrination of Saudi school children through their public educational system, the apocalyptic conspiracy theories that are rife in Saudi state-run media, and the profound antipathy that the majority in their religious establishment have towards western values.
In 2002, with the images of 9/11 still fresh in the American mindset and approximately nine months before the start of the Iraq war, scholar Victor Davis Hanson wrote a most detailed analysis about America’s self-defeating “alliance” with the House of Saud.
In Our enemies the Saudis, Hanson examines the conundrum of why a western, liberalized society that bases its entire identity on pluralism can have any diplomatic relations, let alone a strong alliance, with the reactionary neo-Caliphate oligarchy of Saudi Arabia. The “anomaly ...   more »

By Todd Lewan
CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
The “chipping” of two workers with RFIDs — radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick — was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key cards and clearance codes, the company said.
“To protect high-end secure data, you use more sophisticated techniques,” Sean Darks, chief executive of the Cincinnati-based company, said. He compared chip implants to retina scans or fingerprinting. “There’s a reader outside the door; you walk up to the reader, put your arm under it, and it opens the door.”
Innocuous? Maybe.
But the news that Americans had, for the first time, been injected with electronic identifiers to perform their jobs fired up a debate over the proliferation of ever-more-precise tracking technologies and their ability to erode privacy in the digital age.
High-tech helper or Big Brother?
To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention — a high-tech helper that could ...   more »

Hewlett-Packard is introducing new technology to allow the storage of large amounts of information on small chips that can be attached to various objects.
The mobile chips, called Memory Spots, have an adhesive back enabling them to be placed on objects such as paintings, photographs, passports and medical-alert bracelets, the New York Times reports.
Stored information on the tiny, mobile chip could include sound, text or video.
Memory Spots have a distinct advantage over the controversial Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, tags, with the ability to store more than 250 times as much data and transmit 20 times faster.
The information can be accessed by touching the chip with an inexpensive handheld electronic reader, the Times said.
RFID tags, which have raised privacy concerns, can be read from many feet away while Memory Spots can be read only up close.
Promoters of Memory Spots also insist privacy is of little worry because the information can be encrypted.
If produced in volume, the Memory Spots could cost as little as 10 cents each. However, questions remain about the practicality of the technology for everyday use. Also unanswered is what happens to the data should the tiny device become detached from an ...   more »