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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: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-26/idiots-guide-world-affairs/

By Jonathan Cook

Published March 26, 2025

The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four-reasons-why-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-west-bank-is-being-accepted-by-the-world/

By Qassam Muaddi

Published March 21, 2025

Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1948. But there is hope a new world is being born.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinians-are-pleading-end-gaza-war-no-one-listening

By Ahmed Najar

Published March 27, 2025

Protesters are calling on both Israel and Hamas to relieve their misery, while the media only amplifies whatever angle suits its narrative

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 14, 2021

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-24/hamas-hospital-strike-netanyahu/

By Jonathan Cook
Published March 24, 2025

Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them

Source: The New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/features/israels-ramadan-blockade-reaches-catastrophic-levels-gaza 

By Mohamed Solaimane

Published March 13, 2025

By sealing all crossings into Gaza, Israel is preventing much-needed humanitarian aid from reaching the enclave’s 2.3 million residents this Ramadan

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/it-doesnt-matter-what-the-un-report-on-gaza-says-israel-will-ignore-it-anyway/00000195-ae75-d9db-a3bf-ff7f2c5f0000

By Becca Strober

Published March 19, 2025

Israeli officials labeled the report on gender-based violence 'antisemitic' and 'a blood libel.' Israeli society too dismisses human rights abuses. We have mastered the art of willful blindness

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-24/hamas-hospital-strike-netanyahu/

By Jonathan Cook

Published March 24, 2025

Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published May 15, 2022