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Making a Difference – The Means, Methods, and Mechanism for Many to Move Mountains

By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Those who commit to 'healing our broken humanity' build intercultural bridges to learn to know and understand one another and others. Readers who thumb through the Building the Bridge (BTB) pages are not mindless sheep following other mindless sheep. They THINK. They want to be at the forefront of making a difference. They're in search of the bigger picture to expand their horizons. They don't need BTB or anyone else to confirm their biases.

Making a Difference – The Means, Methods, and Mechanism for Many to Move Mountains

Accurate knowledge promotes understanding, dispels prejudice, and awakens the desire to learn more. Words have an extraordinary power to bring people together, divide them, forge bonds of friendship, or provoke hostility. Modern technology places unprecedented possibilities for good at our disposal, fostering harmony and reconciliation. Yet its misuse can do untold harm, leading to misunderstanding, prejudice, and conflict.

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 20)

The Hague, 17 January 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

PODCAST | WHAT COULD STILL GO WRONG WITH THE ISRAEL-HAMAS CEASE-FIRE AND HOSTAGE DEAL?

Haaretz correspondent Linda Dayan spoke to Haaretz's senior security analyst Amos Harel about the hurdles that remain, the future of Gaza, the fate of the hostages, and the dashed hopes of Israel's radical right wing.

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gazas-rubble/

By Donya Abu Sitta
Published January 11, 2025

Amid the rubble of Gaza, survivors recount harrowing tales of endurance, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation.

Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-is-the-last-phase-of-zionism

By Anealla Safdar

Published January 14, 2025

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

Source: IslamiCity

https://www.islamicity.org/103854/penguins-zionism-and-the-instinct-for-survival/

By Muhammad Shahid Alam

Published January 11, 2025

Zionists have sought to delegitimize Palestinian opposition to Zionism or Jewish settler-colonialization of their lands by accusing them of antisemitism, that is, of harboring hatred for Jews as such, not because of what they had/have been doing to Palestinians.

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gazas-rubble/

By Donya Abu Sitta

Published January 11, 2025

Amid the rubble of Gaza, survivors recount harrowing tales of endurance, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation.

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, 12 January 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 19)

The Hague, 10 January 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

THE RICH GET RICHER – US SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT) WARNS U.S. IS BECOMING AN OLIGARCHY

"We are quickly moving toward an oligarchic society... We can't travel the world saying, 'In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy.' Well, we have our oligarchy here, too."

Source: The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/genocide-the-new-normal

By Chris Hedges
Published January 6, 2025

Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-jimmy-carter-utopian-dove-shrewd-driver-empire

By Nazia Kazi

Published December 30, 2024

The late president's greatest success was his ability to carry out the task assigned to all US presidents: expansion of an empire for the purpose of enriching a ruling elite