At an impromptu press conference held upon El-Al airlines during the pop queen's hasty retreat out of the war-torn country, Madonna further explained her remarks. "I was surprised to find out that people actually take religion seriously here," she carefully explained, as an unidentified woman attempted to cover up Madonna's new Star of David tattoo, "back in the states, if I fellated a man dressed like Jesus or made a video as a lesbian-slut Virgin Mother Mary I'd get a few letters or maybe a handful of protesters at each concert. Yet that paled in comparison to the press I got as a genus risqué-artist. Here, I come to Jerusalem an honest student of orgasm-based Judaism, and everybody hates me and the press could give a shit."

She then detailed one of her frightful encounters. "I'm like walking down the street, and one of those Abraham-Lincoln-looking Hamadisi-whatever-you-call- them guys is like 'slut go home!' and I'm like 'look, man, I'm here because I totally respect your religion, ok? So don't go imposing your rules or values on me, Hitler-man.' For some reason that really made him mad. They chase me down the street, yelling something about how the whole of this is going to cost me or something, and then I found myself in like this really different part of the city."

Madonna, who became visibly upset while telling the story, paused briefly, claiming she was, "verklempt, uh . . . I mean really shook up." She continued, "so I'm in this really run-down part of the city, and these really buff guys come running up to me, and they're like, 'you Jew?' and I'm like 'yes, yes, shal-mon my friend' and they start pickup up stones and like totally throwing them at me. They're saying things in this whole other language. I found out later they were . . ." Madonna then turned to her publicist, who whispered something in her ear, " . . . o yeah, Palastonians. It turns out those people don't like Jews much."

"It just doesn't make sense," Madonna wondered aloud, "I mean, it's not actually like you're actually supposed to obey the rules of your religion, right? That's just for people in, like, Kentucky. I mean religious imagery is good to belittle in music videos, but no one actually takes it seriously, right? What's the matter with people over here?"