Building the Bridge

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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.

To confront Zionism and Western imperialism, history must be rewritten: Palestine is owed its own Balfour Declaration

July 15, 2025

Source: New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/resist-zionism-palestine-owed-its-own-balfour-declaration

By Rami G. Khouri

Published July 7, 2025

Solving the question of Palestine means naming its root cause: Zionism. Without this reckoning, Palestinian rights will remain ignored, warns Rami Khouri.

Zionist Impunity Challenges States to Act Decisively to Halt Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

July 15, 2025

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zionist-impunity-challenges-states-to-act-decisively-to-halt-genocide-and-ethnic-cleansing/

By Iqbal Jassat

Published July 12, 2025

We are reminded by media coverage, despite Israel’s military embargo and denial of journalists’ entry to Gaza, that the masses of the population are trapped in the confines of the Strip.