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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: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-10-19/gaza-war-ceasefire-lie/

By Jonathan Cook

Published October 19, 2025

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different

Source: CounterCurrents

https://countercurrents.org/2025/10/from-refuge-to-ruin-how-zionism-betrayed-its-palestinian-guardians/

By Asif Hussain

Published October 26, 2025 

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-18/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/in-the-rush-to-move-on-who-will-make-israel-face-its-moral-failures/00000199-f5ee-dfc6-a3bf-f5eeb7010000

By Eran Rolnik

Published October 18, 2025

Israeli society is prepared to process the failures of Oct. 7 in technical terms – military intel, army, logistics – but refuses to confront its own moral blindness. This is where the 'other Israel' must step in

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, October 26, 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 57)

The Hague, 24 October 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: The New Arab
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/after-genocide-what-future-holds-palestine

By Muhammad Shehada
Published October 9, 2025

In the shadow of unspeakable loss, Palestinians stand at a crossroads between devastation and rebuilding a national future

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/nothing-is-over-not-in-the-gaza-strip-nor-in-the-west-bank/0000019a-02d7-d582-a39e-5af72a040000

By Jack Khoury and Jacky Khoury

Published October 20

The same equation Israel has adopted in Gaza – where Palestinian society is consumed by internal strife, fighting over the crumbs of what little they have – is also applied to the West Bank, where repression and trampling of rights are the order of the day under a brutal Israeli military regime

Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251020-the-crumbling-illusion-why-american-public-opinion-on-israel-is-shifting/

By Jamal Kanj

Published October 20, 2025

Source: The New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/analysis/after-genocide-what-future-holds-palestine

By Muhammad Shehada
Published October 9, 2025

In the shadow of unspeakable loss, Palestinians stand at a crossroads between devastation and rebuilding a national future