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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.

Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-kills-journalists-western-media-killing-truth-genocide

By Jonathan Cook
Published October 25, 2024

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-27/ty-article/.premium/gaza-is-the-horror-that-cant-be-denied-but-israelis-will-try/00000192-cf22-d4a2-ab97-cf2fe1640000

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published October 27, 2024

Headlines have shifted to Iran, but Israel is still starving, bombing and expelling the population of northern Gaza. While Israeli society as a whole has activated its denial mode, the horrifying images – and the policy, statements and reality behind them – are causing some Israelis to protest war crimes, or even utter the word genocide

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-11-03/ty-article-opinion/.premium/resistance-is-a-just-struggle/00000192-ee0c-d3da-a5b7-ff1ea6fa0000

By Gideon Levy

Published November 3, 2024

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-kills-journalists-western-media-killing-truth-genocide

By Jonathan Cook

Published October 25, 2024

Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, October 15, 2023

How Do You Love Your ENEMIES? Have NONE!

The Hague, 03 November 2023 | If you know of any story that is decisive, tell the world. We're still searching.

Source: Gulf News
https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/how-palestinians-see-their-future-and-their-past-1.104474441

By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News
Published October 25, 2024

Palestine will win freedom because it has invested in long-term trajectory of aspirations

Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/28/israel-wants-to-close-the-circle-of-history-in-gaza

By Lorenzo Kamel

Published October 28, 2024

In 1948, Gaza became a haven for refugees. Now it may face the same fate as other depopulated Palestinian lands.

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/palestine-letter-the-struggle-never-ends/

By Tareq S. Hajjaj

Published October 23, 2024

I used to write about the world as I saw it and the world that I wanted to see. Now as I bear witness to the extermination of northern Gaza, I can only write about the unfolding horror.