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Subject: Digest of Prophetic Developments


             Digest of Prophetic Developments
                     June 29 to July 11, 1998


JERUSALEM - THE FOCUS

ARAFAT: JERUSALEM IS 'LIFE OR DEATH'
By Mohammed Najib and Agencies Ramallah (July 2)

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday that
the government's new plan for strengthening Israel's hold over
all of Jerusalem could dash the last hopes for peace.
Palestinians will use all means to defend the city, Arafat told a
special meeting of Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah.
"The battle for Jerusalem is a battle of life and death for the
Palestinian people," Arafat said, wagging his finger from time to
time to make a point.

"This [Israeli] settlement aggression is a total destruction of
the peace process," Arafat told the legislators. Arafat demanded
that Arab countries convene a summit on the future of the city.
He also urged the UN Security Council, which began debate on the
Jerusalem plan Tuesday, to condemn Israel. The council has
shelved the matter indefinitely without a vote.

Arafat said: "Our Legislative Council is meeting today at this
emergency session, to [discuss] plans which are able to protect
Jerusalem from the settlement dangers which threaten it, after
the failure of all the international efforts during the last two
years to stop the current Israeli government." The Netanyahu
government, he added, "wants to change the Arabic nature of the
sacred city, and deface it's cultural sites."

In his speech, Arafat said the Palestinians would never settle
for Israeli control over all of the city. "The patience of the
Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people has run out,"
Arafat said. "Let Netanyahu and his government know that
Jerusalem is a red line, and that there is not one person among
us who would make concessions on any grain of soil of Jerusalem."

IRAN: PALESTINE SEEKS IRAN'S HELP IN EFFORTS TO SAVE JERUSALEM
Tehran IRNA in English Jun 98 - Kahl's I&G News 7/8/98

Having virtually lost hope in the ability of Arab regimes to take
a concerted action to counter Zionist expansionism in al-Quds
[Jerusalem], several Palestinian leaders are turning to Iran in
the hope that the Islamic Republic will succeed where the Arabs
failed, namely put up a collective and genuine Islamic stance to
Palestine, said a report from al-Quds.

Wajih Yaghi, a legislative council member representing the Gaza
District, appealed to Iran on Sunday to take the lead in
"crystallizing a real Islamic stance on Jerusalem." Speaking to
journalists in Gaza, Yaghi appealed to the Islamic Republic to
try to mobilize the member states of the organization of Islamic
Conference (OIC) for a concerted action to counter Zionist
designs in al-Quds. "I call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to
spearhead efforts to counter Zionist insolence in Jerusalem,"
said Yaghi in response to a question.


PEACE PROCESS

COULD THIS BE THE END OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP?
Int'l Christian Embassy Jerusalem - 6/29/98

The US will not be able to continue its support of Israel in the
United Nations, and Washington has Middle East interests other
than Israel, MA'ARIV reports US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright as telling PM Binyamin Netanyahu during a telephone
conversation last week. Albright reportedly said the US would
probably not be able to veto UN Security Council decisions
regarding Israeli plans to expand the boundaries of Jerusalem
during a meeting on the issue this week. "Israel is not the
exclusive American interest in the Middle East," she is quoted as
telling Netanyahu.

MA'ARIV notes that, according to political observers, Albright's
statements were unprecedented, and were partly due to
Washington's declining status in the Arab world. At the same
time, Albright has apparently asked PLO chairman Yasser Arafat to
stop recent PLO activities at the United Nations. The PLO is
attempting to have its observer status upgraded to that of a
near-state, a move Israel calls a clear violation of the Oslo
accords.


GENERAL ASSEMBLY UPGRADES PLO'S U.N. STATUS
Reuters July 7, 1998 United Nations

Brushing aside objections by the United States and Israel, the
General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to upgrade the
status of the Palestinian U.N. observer delegation, giving it
rights closer to those of a member state.  The vote on the
resolution was 124 to four, with 10 abstentions.  Voting against
were the United States, Israel, and the Pacific island nations of
the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.


U.S. IN "END-GAME'' MIDEAST PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
Reuters July 8, 1998 Washington

The United States said Wednesday it was in an "intensive end-game
negotiation'' to try to clinch an Israeli troop pullback in the
West Bank, but that it was still very uncertain whether a deal
would be made.  The State Department said Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright on Wednesday telephoned Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, after
making two phone calls Tuesday and four over the weekend to
Netanyahu. The calls indicated that a six-month U.S. effort to
broker a deal for Israel to withdraw from another 13 percent of
the West Bank in return for extra security guarantees from the
Palestinians was nearing a climax.

"We are in an intensive end-game negotiation on the U.S. ideas
that are designed to put the Middle East peace process back on
track,'' State Department spokesman James Rubin said.  "But we
have no knowledge that this will yield success ... We're
continuing to make sufficient progress to justify further work.
And whether we achieve success is very much an open question at
this time.''

SIDES MUST TALK SAYS ALBRIGHT
Reuters 7/10/98

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Friday pressed Israel
and the Palestinians to negotiate directly on Middle East peace
issues and renewed her warning that the current impasse cannot
continue indefinitely. "What has happened here as a result of
this long stalemate, it is increasingly difficult ... for the
Israelis and the Palestinians to talk with each other. We don't
think that this impasse can be resolved ... if they do not talk
with each other," Albright said.

Albright spoke at a news conference as she began talks with
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa. One day earlier, two senior
Palestinian negotiators met US officials in Washington over
efforts to wrap up a US-brokered land and security deal with
Israel. The United States has been working hard to refine
American peace proposals and to narrow gaps between Israel and
the Palestinians but "there is a limited amount that the United
States or anyone can do if the parties themselves do not talk
with each other to resolve the remaining difficult issues" she
said. "It is essential that the parties talk with each other" she
stressed.

Asked how long the US effort would continue, Albright said: "I
believe that while there are constructive discussions going on
that it is worth continuing the process. We are clearly coming to
the end of this phase and we cannot let it go on indefinitely ...
I believe we are coming towards the end of it. But as long as the
talks are constructive, I think it's worth going the extra mile."


PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

ISRAELI GENERAL DISPUTES ISRAEL'S UNQUESTIONED MILITARY
SUPERIORITY. Global Intelligence Update Red Alert June 30, 1998

Israeli Major General Matan Vilnai, former Deputy Chief of Staff
of the Israel Defense Forces, said on Sunday night that Israeli
defense doctrine is no longer "up-to-date." In a speech before
defense specialists, Vilnai said that "It would be absolutely
safe to say today, and I am not telling any secrets here, that
our defense doctrine is not up-to-date, and it is probably
incapable of providing an answer to the emerging threats the
State of Israel has to confront.  We think we are the
neighborhood bully, to use a slang term, that no one would have
the nerve to challenge us, and that should anyone challenge us,
they will get such a beating that will teach them not to start
anything next time." But, he went on to say, "The situation has
changed.  We no longer have the possibility of achieving a
decisive victory, while the Arabs still have that option."

GOD REMEMBERS WITH VENGEANCE; ISRAEL BUYING 3 SUBMARINES TO CARRY
NUCLEAR MISSILES
Weekend News Today Source: Washington Times Wed Jul 1 , 1998

Israel is buying three large submarines from Germany capable of
carrying nuclear-armed cruise missiles, with the reported goal of
deterring any enemy from trying to take out its nuclear weapons
with a surprise attack. The first of the submarines is undergoing
tests in the North Sea as Israel completes a major review of its
strategic defense doctrine, which some generals believe is
dangerously outdated. Without the submarines, Israeli political
and intelligence sources say, the armed forces fear their nuclear
arsenal is vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike by Iran or any
other Middle East nation that may acquire nuclear weapons.

Jane's Intelligence Review reported Sept. 1 that photo
reconnaissance indicated Israel had stored around 150 nuclear
warheads and 50 Jericho II intermediate range missiles to carry
them at Zachariah air force base southeast of Tel Aviv. Zachariah
means in Hebrew, "God remembers with vengeance."


JEWS COULD FIGHT JEWS, SHIN BET PREDICTS
By Ze'ev Schiff, Ha'aretz Military Editor 7/10/98

For the first time in Shin Bet history the counterintelligence
agency's annual assessment includes a warning about extremist
Jewish groups prepared to take violent - including armed - action
against other Jews.

The annual report says the descent into violence could take place
in case of a withdrawal, and could take the form of organized
violence against state institutions, against political leaders,
or in outbreaks between different groups within Israeli society.
In the past, when the agency's annual assessment did refer to
possible armed Jewish groups, it generally referred to potential
conspiracies to strike at Palestinians as a strategy to stall or
halt negotiations.

Now, for the first time in the organization's history, the Shin
Bet assessment includes warnings of possible armed attacks by
Jews on Jews. Although the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was
regarded as just such an event, it was, until now, seen as a
one-time event, because it was conducted by a lone assassin.

CHANCE OF WAR
Yediot Aharonot  7/10/98

Senior "Yediot Aharonot" reporter, Ron Ben-Yishai's article
"EXPOSURE: Military Intelligence Estimate - The Chance of War in
the Coming Year Greater Than In The Past" was the feature article
in the Friday July 10 supplement and highlighted in the
newspaper's advertising campaign.

Ben-Yishai reports that Arafat is preparing to attack Israel via
three forces:
(1) Local Fatah activists under the command of Preventive
Security chiefs Rajoub and Dahlan, who directed a dry run
mobilization last May.
(2) The 36,000 arms bearing "security forces" - some of whom have
already planned and practiced attacks against settlements.  The
Palestinian Authority has special anti-terror forces trained by
Austria and other European countries whose role is apparently to
attack settlements.  Arafat own guard, Force 17, may also take
part.
(3) Hamas forces who would, as in the past, be given the "green
light" from Arafat.

JANE'S: SYRIA IS SET TO PRODUCE DEADLY VX NERVE AGENT
July 2, 1998 London (AP)

Syria is preparing to produce deadly VX nerve agent, Jane's
Defense Weekly reported, quoting Israeli intelligence estimates.
The respected military magazine said in a Tel Aviv-dated story
Wednesday that Syria is already able to produce other chemical
agents "and is set to locally produce quantities of the VX
chemical agent.'' According to Jane's, previous attempts by Syria
and Libya to produce quantities of VX locally were strongly
opposed, and both countries were forced to call off their
activities as a result of international military and political
pressure.

TENSE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN TROOPS; GAZA
SEALED
July 2, 1998 By Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press Kfar Darom, Gaza
Strip (AP)

In the tensest showdown in nearly two years, Israeli and
Palestinian troops on Thursday scuffled and later pointed guns at
one another from hastily dug fortifications outside Jewish
settlements in the southern Gaza Strip.  A routine argument over
the use of a road led to the confrontation. Scores of Palestinian
trucks blocked access to roads to the settlements and in
response, Israel brought in armored personnel carriers and sealed
off the entire Gaza Strip.


APOSTASY

VATICAN CLOSES CHURCH LAW LOOPHOLE ON THEOLOGICAL DISSENT
June 30, 1998 By Daniel J. Wakin, Associated Press Vatican City
(AP)

The Vatican cracked down harder Tuesday on dissent by liberal
theologians, ruling out any challenge to church teachings such as
the ban on women priests, euthanasia and sex outside marriage.
In the document, Pope John Paul II declared deviations from
Catholicism's "definitive truths'' a violation of church law.

The pontiff did not specify what teachings he was taking aim at.
But in a commentary, the Vatican's chief of doctrine, Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger, named the church's bans on women priests,
euthanasia and sexual intercourse outside marriage.  Dissenters
could be declared "no longer ... in full communion with the
Catholic Church,'' Ratzinger said. Violators could be subject to
a wide range of punishments, from a warning, to excommunication,
depending on the gravity of the violation, said the Rev. James
Provost, a professor of church law at Catholic University in
Washington.

POPE CALLS ON CATHOLICS TO DEFEND SABBATH (Sunday)

By Bruce Johnston in Rome London Telegraph

THE Pope is to issue a high-profile document in which he will
tell Roman Catholics to respect and defend the Sabbath.  The
document, an apostolic letter entitled Dies Domini (The Day of
the Lord) is due out next Tuesday, on the eve of the Pope's
departure on holiday. It is the second of its kind in a week.
The document, which has taken months to prepare, is known to be
divided into three sections. The first looks at the Sabbath from
the biblical point of view, while the others examine the existing
situation and say what should be done to remedy it.

ARCHBISHOP URGES END TO 'CULT OF DIANA'
by Christopher Morgan London Sunday Times 7/5/98

THE Archbishop of York has called for the cult of Diana, Princess
of Wales to end, warning that the country is in danger of
"clinging too much to the icon".  David Hope, the second-most
senior bishop in the Church of England, has also launched a
scathing attack on the Diana museum opened last week by the
princess's brother, Earl Spencer, on his Althorp estate in
Northamptonshire. The archbishop said: "It's the last thing she
would have wanted."

ANTI-GAYS RECTOR TURNS TO CRYSTALS
By Our Religion Correspondent - London Times 7/6/98

A LEADING evangelical announced yesterday that he had abandoned
his campaign against homosexuality and has turned to Christian
crystal-gazing.  The Rev Tony Higton, rector of Hawkwell, Essex
said that the Church of England had much to learn from New Age
practices. He has mounted a display at his church of the crystals
described in the Bible's Book of Revelation.  Worshippers gaze at
jasper, bloodstone, turquoise, amethyst and other crystals to
meditate on Heaven, he said.

ANTI-SEMITISM AND PERSECUTION

MOSCOW'S JEWISH CEMETERY DESECRATED
(IsraelWire-6/29)

Moscow's Lubavitch Jewish community reports that anti-Semitic
vandals have desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Moscow's Maryina
Roscha district over the weekend. According to the local Jewish
leaders, tombstones were smashed and painted with anti-Semitic
graffiti. In a statement on the incident reported by Associated
Press, Rabbi Berel Lazar said, "We will not cower to cowardly
acts of terror." The synagogue located in the Maryina Roscha
District was the target of a bombing attack in May.

SAUDIA ARABIA ARRESTS CHRISTIANS
Religion Today 6/30/98

Saudi Arabia has arrested 14 more Christians, the missions group
Voice of the Martyrs said. At least 25 members of the underground
expatriate church are being held by religious police in the
Islamic country. The crackdown began when police arrested several
Filipino Christians this month for distributing Bible materials
to homes in Riyadh. More Christians have been arrested since
then, and members of the underground church are living in fear, a
pastor who formerly worked in the country said. Torture is
commonly used to get people to reveal the names of other church
leaders, he said.

SAUDIS DENY JAILED CHRISTIANS CONSULAR ACCESS'
ICEJ News 7/8/98

Saudi Arabian authorities are denying Filipino and Dutch
officials access to (Christian) citizens imprisoned for their
faith, according to Compass Direct News.  Ten expatriate Filipino
workers and one man from the Netherlands have been arrested for
alleged activities in the underground Christian church. "At least
20 foreign nationals known to be practising Christians, including
a pregnant woman, have been subjected to police interrogations
since the arrests began June 5."


Y2K IMPENDING DISASTER

GAO CHIEF SCIENTIST SAYS 'NO ONE IS IN CHARGE' OF FED Y2K EFFORTS
By Daniel M. Verton - Federal Computer Week - June 29,1998
Washington, D.C.

The General Accounting Office's chief scientist this week said
"no one is in charge" of the federal government's Year 2000
preparations and that nobody knows for sure just how much headway
the government is making in its battle against the clock.

Speaking at the Year 2000 National Security and the Global
Economy conference here, Rona B. Stillman said, "Our entire way
of life, in essence, is at risk" due to problems managing the
government's Year 2000 efforts. "We don't know the [Year 2000]
status of the federal government with any real precision," she
said.

MEDICAL DEVICES VULNERABLE TO Y2K BUG???
Weekend News Today Source: Nando Times Fri Jul 10 , 1998

Many manufacturers of computerized medical devices have yet to
tell doctors and hospitals whether their products might
malfunction in the year 2000, AFP quoted The Washington Post. A
coalition of private and public health care providers, including
the VA, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital
Association and the American Nurses Association, warned that
manufacturers "need to take immediate action." The slow pace of
notification is making it difficult for hospitals and doctors to
determine whether their computerized devices will be affected by
the date change in 2000.


COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

U.S. TREASURY CHIEF SAYS JAPAN MAIN RISK FOR GLOBAL CRISIS
June 30, 1998 By Patrick Mcdowell, Associated Press Bangkok,
Thailand (AP)

The risk that Asia's financial crisis will turn into a global
depression remains low, but the perilous state of Japan's economy
must be addressed immediately, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert
Rubin said today. Rubin told reporters that a recalcitrant U.S.
Congress needs to approve $18 billion sought by the Clinton
administration for the International Monetary Fund so that it can
quickly respond to new outbreaks of economic upheaval. Otherwise,
a new phase of the crisis "could result in a very substantive
impact on the American economy,'' which has been largely spared
except for agricultural exports, Rubin said.

BANKING GROUP PREDICTS ASIAN CRISIS WILL LOWER WORLD TRADE
July 8, 1998 Washington (AP)

The Institute of International Finance predicts economic troubles
in seven Asian countries will result in a $35 billion increase in
the U.S. trade deficit and depress growth around the world.  The
institute, a lobbying group for international banks, predicted
Tuesday there will be a $115 billion reduction in trade for
industrial countries due to the Asian troubles and a $46 billion
trade loss for developing countries. "The East Asian financial
crisis will impose a large trade balance shift on the global
economy,'' the institute's economists forecast. "Recession and
sharp currency depreciations in the region are reducing its
imports and increasing exports.''


MARK OF THE BEAST AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONTROL

NEW ISRAELI IDENTITY CARDS TO INCLUDE FINGERPRINTS
(IsraelWire-6/30)

The Israeli Ministry of the Interior is still investigating the
possibilities available today regarding technological advances
that will permit the manufacture of the next generation Israeli
identification card, which is issued to all citizens over the age
of 18. The ministry is currently looking at a computerized card
that will include a person's signature and fingerprint of two
fingers. The new cards planned by the ministry will be the size
of a credit card, and also contain a picture of the person, as do
today's cards. The picture and other data will also be stored on
the master computer that monitors the entire population. Ministry
officials stated the fingerprints would not be mandatory, except
for those persons involved in the actual manufacturing of the
cards, where the fingerprinting will be mandatory for security
reasons.

POLICE LASER CHIP
Crimestoppers Internet Newsletter July 2, 1998

Computer technology could someday help police stop a crook
speeding away in a stolen car. Less than two weeks ago Sergeant
Rick Asten with the Kansas City Police Department was killed
while trying to lay down a device to stop a Chevy Blazer. The
suspect was able to run over the 14-year veteran who had been
crouched down behind his police car.

Now imagine a police officer in a helicopter or even a patrol
car, pointing a laser gun towards a computer chip in the car.
Then by pulling the trigger he's able to shut off the engine
leaving the driver helpless.

A California man, Charles Gabbard, developed and patented the
technology, and has negotiated with each car maker to install the
computer chip in every 1999 vehicle on the road. Gabbard will
only lease his system to police departments for $5 a year per
unit. Older cars also can be fitted with the device for about
$30.

CAMERA CHECK ON CAR NUMBERS TRAPS GUNMAN
London Times 7/7/98

City of London's instant tracing system may be used for ports and
motorways, reports Stewart Tendler

NEW police spy cameras in the City of London designed to read and
check number plates have trapped an armed robber and led to
hundreds of arrests.  A report yesterday on the first year of
operation of the system known as ANPR (Automatic Number Plate
Recognition) showed that 26 million plates were checked against
national records. Police were alerted to 4,800 drivers and made
340 arrests.

The system is considered so successful that plans are being made
to set up similar cameras at all ferry ports and at main
junctions on motorways throughout the country.  Developed by the
City of London force with computer experts, the cameras and
computers read the number plate of every vehicle coming through
the so-called "ring of steel", the security cordon set up in 1993
to deter IRA terrorists. High definition closed-circuit cameras
also store photographs of the people in the front seats.

The numbers are checked in four seconds with millions of records
on the Police National Computer, intelligence material and a "hot
list" of target vehicles. When the system records a "hit", the
police control room computer shows the location, colour and type
of vehicle and a summary of why police are intrested in it.
Officers can then order it to be stopped or shadow its progress.

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