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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 39)

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

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?

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?

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

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.

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, October 4, 2020

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.

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

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud
Published May 26, 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