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By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dignify-or-to-destroy/

Published SEP 3, 2018

Become part of what might become the biggest letter writing campaign in the history of mankind. Anyone, everywhere may write a letter, personally or anonymously, to a designated world leader of choice in just three clicks. Immediately thereafter, the letter is published on www.buildingthebridge.eu and, simultaneously, it is flashed throughout cyberspace.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-this-filmmaker-dares-to-question-the-figure-of-6-million-jewish-victims-in-wwii-1.10542149?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=c15387912d&lts=1642359808019

By Nirit Anderman

Published January 16, 2022

How did the devastating, albeit too round number of 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust become so profoundly embedded in our minds? In his new documentary Israeli filmmaker David Fisher dares to try and recount

Source: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/13/peace-middle-east-friend-summer-camp-israel

By Roy Cohen

Published January 13, 2022

At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian. I was Israeli. When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/the-nation-lifts-up-jewish-fears-over-palestinian-realities-in-a-zionist-tract/

BY PHILIP WEISS  

Published January 14, 2022

The Nation runs a righwing religious endorsement of Zionism that opposes BDS and leaves out the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-bill-to-preserve-jewish-demographic-supremacy-1.10540934

By Carolina Landsmann

Published January 16, 2022

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, January 16, 2022

Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/alchemy-of-angst-by-elif-shafak-2021-12?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=f6105226b3-op_newsletter_01_07_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-f6105226b3-93791313&mc_cid=f6105226b3&mc_eid=284f1f0e24&barrier=accesspay

By ELIF SHAFAK

Published December 4, 2021

In a world smothered by information but lacking wisdom, anger, born of pain, has become the defining emotion. The false promise of twenty-first-century digital technologies has been laid bare, leaving people desperate for meaningful human connection and a sense of political agency.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-the-chameleon-u-s-experts-shaken-over-what-this-iranian-scholar-just-said-1.10532688?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=ea7875ed8b

By Yossi Melman

Published January 12, 2022

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a visiting scholar at Princeton and an influential figure in the corridors of power in his country, recently spoke with a smirk of satisfaction about the threats directed against former American official Brian Hook

Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/06/israel-palestinians-occupation-full-rights-west-bank/

By Mairav Zonszein
Published January 6, 2022 

Source: +972 Magazine

https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-bourgeoisie-boutagy-haifa/

By Himmat Zoubi 

Published January 6, 2022

The story of the Boutagy family exemplifies how urban, middle-class Palestinians struggled to maintain their status in Israel after the Nakba.