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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: Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/counting-victims-won-t-end-gaza-genocide

By Ramzy Baroud

Published July 31, 2026

What makes the tragedy even more unbearable is that the entire world knows what has transpired and continues to transpire in Gaza, yet fails to do anything about it.

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/two-states-in-one-homeland-recycling-a-politically-defunct-partition-paradigm/

By Awad Abdelfattah

Published August 3, 2026

Efforts to manage the conflict without dismantling the structures of settler colonialism have produced deeper occupation, expanding settlements, increasing fragmentation.

Source: Mideast Discourse

https://mideastdiscourse.com/2026/07/28/the-west-bank-on-the-brink-israels-far-right-u-s-support-and-a-region-in-crisis/

By Steven Sahiounie

Published August 3, 2026

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 110)

The Hague, 3 August 2026 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 109)

The Hague, 31 July 2026 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: The Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2651658

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud
Published July 20. 2026

Source: Global Bar Magazine

https://globalbar.se/2026/07/opinion-while-the-world-is-watching-the-map-of-palestine-is-being-redrawn/

By Jad Isaac

Published July 20, 2026 

Three decades of geospatial research reveal how settlement expansion, land confiscation and administrative restructuring are transforming the occupied Palestinian territory faster than diplomacy can respond, writes Jad Isaac, Director General, Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ).

Source: Palestine Chronicle 

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-subsidized-occupation-the-black-gold-palestine-and-the-arabs/

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam

Published July 20, 2026

The black gold that once promised regional self-determination has instead financed a status quo of complicity and servitude, leaving the Palestinian cause marooned on an altar of transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation.

Source: The Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2651658

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published July 20. 2026