How shall we sing the Lord’s song in the land where we have been made strangers?” is the plaintive cry of our Christian sisters and brothers in Palestine, now imprisoned in their already occupied native territories by a giant wall built mostly on their confiscated land. The Wall, standing 26.6 feet high, isolating Palestinian towns and villages of the West Bank, separating families, disrupting livelihoods, and effectively creating communal prison cells, has become a new “Wailing Wall.”

Security from suicide bombers is ostensibly the reason behind the Wall. As we wrestle with a God of justice and compassion in prayerful contemplation, we acknowledge that security for Israel is extremely important. We abhor suicide bombings as acts of desperation that accomplish nothing more than to generate fear, anger, and further alienation. But is the Wall the answer? If God, for the sake of a few righteous ones, had been willing to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, should Israel (whose name means “wrestling with God”), for the sake of some evil acts, destroy an entire people?...