November 29, 2000

11:59 PM

The Million Prayer Marchwas set up to collect one million prayers for peace in the Middle East. James Twyman, author and Peace Troubadour, set up this website after Arafat said that peace will not come to Middle East without a million strong prayers. Once the site has collected one million prayers, Twyman will travel to Israel with all the prayers to present them to Arafat and Barak. I was prayer no 78536.
posted by tamim (9 comments total)

peace on earth and goodwill towards every man, woman and child.

78544
posted by will at 12:18 AM on November 30, 2000

Amazing how quickly the phrase "Million (foo) March", where (foo) is your cause du jour, has become a standard. Thank you, Louis Farrakhan!
posted by Potsy at 12:18 AM on November 30, 2000

The page was down. I couldn't post my prayer there, so I'll post it here.
"I am not a Jew
I am not an Arab.
I am a human.
When a man is killed,
I lose a brother.
I am tired of losing brothers."

Peace
posted by Optamystic at 1:03 AM on November 30, 2000

This page seems to be up.
posted by tamim at 1:14 AM on November 30, 2000

tamim,

That page IS up. But if you choose to add a prayer, you get a 404.
posted by Optamystic at 1:19 AM on November 30, 2000

Server Gods might not be in favor of Middle East peace.
posted by tamim at 1:49 AM on November 30, 2000

My Prayer:

Please let us not simplify
the shit out of this conflict;
Please stop Israel from deploying its
US-financed arsenal against unarmed civilians;
Please stop Israel from building
settlements on occupied land;
Please stop Arafat from
bargaining away the Palestinians future.

Amen

posted by lagado at 3:18 AM on November 30, 2000

I'm sure this site is destined to be at least as effective as anything else the average citizen might be able to do about the Middle East situation, i.e. not at all, which is rather depressing.
posted by kindall at 3:31 AM on November 30, 2000

Here's one: Dear Lord, Since you don't affect the world, it is up to humans to help themselves.
posted by quirked at 6:25 AM on November 30, 2000