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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 49)

The Hague, 29 August 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Substack
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/our-complicity-in-gaza-has-set-the

By Jonathan Cook
Published August 15, 2025

As the dusting off of Israel's E1 Plan emphasises, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza – unless we act

Source: Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2612239

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published August 18, 2025

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/netanyahu-is-on-a-mission-to-seize-the-middle-east-will-anyone-stop-him/

David Hearst writes in Middle East Eye on 18 August 2025:

The Israeli prime minister's vision of the Promised Land means that the Gaza genocide heralds the beginning of a vicious territorial campaign

Source: Substack

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/our-complicity-in-gaza-has-set-the

By Jonathan Cook

Published August 15, 2025

As the dusting off of Israel's E1 Plan emphasises, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza – unless we act

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, August 24, 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 48)

The Hague, 22 August 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-genocide-in-gaza-lets-talk-about-something-else/

By Jeremy Salt
Published August 15, 2025

The flurry of recognition of Palestinian statehood is performative politics. Unwilling to do anything to stop the genocide, the actors divert the attention of the audience by talking about something else.

Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/9/israels-starvation-denial-is-an-orwellian-farce

By Daoud Kuttab

Published August 9, 2025

The Israeli ‘hasbara’ cannot disprove the obvious, but it can obfuscate and exhaust.