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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.

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Our Friday News Analysis | What the World Reads Now!

Our Friday News Analysis | What the World Reads Now!
June 05, 2025

 

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 39)

 

The Hague, 6 June 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

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Our Wednesday News Analysis | Analysis | Performance, Punishment or Policy: What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Analysis | Performance, Punishment or Policy: What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?
June 04, 2025

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article/.premium/performance-punishment-or-policy-what-would-recognizing-palestine-really-mean/00000197-165c-de0d-a7f7-b67f167b0000

 

By Dahlia Scheindlin
Published May 28, 2025

 

Nearly 150 countries have already recognized Palestinian statehood, with more in train. Opposing them are Israelis who dream of annexation, and even some Palestinians tired of symbolic declarations. Can the new French-Saudi two-state initiative break the mold?

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Analysis | Performance, Punishment or Policy: What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?

Analysis | Performance, Punishment or Policy: What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean?
June 03, 2025

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article/.premium/performance-punishment-or-policy-what-would-recognizing-palestine-really-mean/00000197-165c-de0d-a7f7-b67f167b0000

 

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published May 28, 2025

 

Nearly 150 countries have already recognized Palestinian statehood, with more in train. Opposing them are Israelis who dream of annexation, and even some Palestinians tired of symbolic declarations. Can the new French-Saudi two-state initiative break the mold?

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Israel's genocide in Gaza is a war on demographics

Israel's genocide in Gaza is a war on demographics
June 03, 2025

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-genocide-gaza-war-demographics

 

By Joseph Massad

Published May 23, 2025

 

Behind the mass killing and expulsion of Palestinians lies a strategic imperative: to restore Jewish demographic dominance across all territory under Israeli colonial control

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The war where women’s bodies lost their rights

The war where women’s bodies lost their rights
June 03, 2025

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/the-war-where-womens-bodies-lost-their-rights/

 

By Mariam Khateeb

Published May 19, 2025

 

The war in Gaza is not only the story of rubble and airstrikes. It is the story of the girl getting her period under bombardment, the mother bleeding in silence and miscarrying on cold floors or giving birth under drones.

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The Evangelical Pope | JOY … Despite Trials and Suffering

The Evangelical Pope | JOY … Despite Trials and Suffering
June 02, 2025

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

 

Published Sunday, October 4, 2020

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Our Friday News Analysis | What the World Reads Now!

Our Friday News Analysis | What the World Reads Now!
May 29, 2025

 

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 38)

 

The Hague, 30 May 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

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Our Wednesday News Analysis | Swift global intervention can halt Gaza genocide

Our Wednesday News Analysis | Swift global intervention can halt Gaza genocide
May 28, 2025

Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2602227

 

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud
Published May 26, 2025

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Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation

Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation
May 27, 2025

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/top-genocide-scholars-unanimous-that-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-dutch-investigation/

 

Sondos Asem reports in Middle East Eye on 17 May 2025

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