Settlers Spotted Praying at Security Fence
Jerusalem - Hardline settlers have turned their backs on the kotel, the spiritual centrepiece of Judaism for thousands of years, in favour of praying at the newly erected security fence, which runs in some sections along the pre 1967 border, in other sections, nowhere near the pre 1967 border.
One group of gun-toting prophets have established a regular minyan at the wall and can sometimes be heard shooting nearby arab villages in moments of over-exuberant devotion. The first bar-mitzvah to take place at the fence was that of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. The young celebrant expressed his wishes that more bar-mitzvahs could be celebrated like this, adding “next year in Damascus!”.
Others having begun posting messages in the security wall, and while religious Israelis wrote prayers to Hashem, secularists were more realistic in directing their prayers to the IDF. “This is my kind of kotel”, said Shlomo from Beersheva, “while I’m not all religious, seperation is at the heart of my belief system-the core of my identity is not being an arab”.
Most of the prayers were conventional, with the religious asking God to protect their families while the secularists expressed hopes that the army might shoot a few more Palestinians than normal. Some however, were more effusive:
“May it be your will, G-d of our fathers (i.e. ours, not theirs) to complete the process of redemption, and bring the world (especially the Palestinian territories) under your unchallenged rule. Frustrate the wishes of the idolaters (particularly, the liberals, democrats, and reform jews) and demonstrate your strength (uzecha) by the means of the uzi. May all of Israel turn their ploughshares into swords, fulfilling the ancient promise, torah shall come from zion (including hebron, nablus, ma’ale adumim) and the word of God from Jerusalem (all of it).”
