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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.

A Shared Identity (Part 1 of 3)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 01 December 2023 | If you know of any story that is decisive, tell the world. We're still searching.

ISRAEL’ IS NOT CONCEIVED OF AS A PLACE BUT AS A PEOPLE

This probably reflects the reality that Israel’s identity stemmed from their religion: maybe religion is all they had to unite them, rather than ethnicity or common origins.

Source: The Telegraph
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/behind-the-mask-the-horror-in-gaza-has-exposed-the-wests-partisanship/cid/1982665

By Mukul Kesavan
Published November 26, 2023

Gaza seems like an inflection point in the shaping of world opinion because the West’s leaders — Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden — didn’t pretend to be even-handed

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-slogan-bigger-news-murder-babies

By Jonathan Cook

Published November 27, 2023

The protest chant 'From the river to the sea' rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it 

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/the-masterful-propaganda-of-deadliest-day-for-jews-since-the-holocaust/

By Tom Suarez

Published November 26, 2023

Israel and its supporters are engaging in Holocaust revisionism to justify its genocidal attack on Gaza.

Source: The Telegraph 

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/behind-the-mask-the-horror-in-gaza-has-exposed-the-wests-partisanship/cid/1982665

By Mukul Kesavan

Published November 26, 2023

Gaza seems like an inflection point in the shaping of world opinion because the West’s leaders — Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden — didn’t pretend to be even-handed

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published July 3, 2022

Shooting Themselves in Both Feet. Soon, There Won’t Be Any Feet Left.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24 November 2023 | If you know of any story that is decisive, tell the world. We're still searching.

ANALYSIS | ISRAELI PR OFFENSIVE FALTERS AFTER THE ATTACK ON THE HOSPITAL

War in Gaza Israel has not yet been able to justify the attack on the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City with incontrovertible evidence that a Hamas command center was located there. That could have significant consequences for the fight in Gaza.

Source: The Elders
https://theelders.org/news/dear-president-biden-elders-open-letter-israel-and-palestine

Published November 16, 2023

On 16 November 2023, The Elders delivered an open letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Israel and Palestine.

Download the open letter and read in full below.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-11-17/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-million-dollar-question-what-to-do-with-the-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/0000018b-d9fb-df9a-ab8b-dffb433a0000

By Carolina Landsmann

Published Noveber 17, 2023