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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: Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/09/08/why-should-i-care-about-gaza/

By Caitlin Johnstone
Published September 8, 2024

We can’t keep living like this. Our species cannot continue living on this planet as though what happens to other people and other organisms around the world has nothing to do with us. We don’t live in that kind of world anymore.

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-09-07/israel-torture-october-7/

By Jonathan Cook

Published September 7, 2024

If you can’t see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas’ crimes, then you have no insight into human nature. You don’t understand yourself

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-09-05/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-map-shows-israel-from-the-river-to-the-sea-its-no-accident/00000191-c2a8-d09f-ab91-debc90e60000

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published Sptember 5, 2024

Source: Caitlin Johnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/09/08/why-should-i-care-about-gaza/

By Caitlin Johnstone

Published September 8, 2024

We can’t keep living like this. Our species cannot continue living on this planet as though what happens to other people and other organisms around the world has nothing to do with us. We don’t live in that kind of world anymore.

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, January 23, 2022

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 2)

The Hague, 7 September 2024 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

LISTEN | WHY CAN'T U.S. POLITICS AGREE ON THE MEANING OF FREEDOM?

A Nation Obsessed with the concept of ‘freedom.’

Source: Gulf News
https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/war-on-children-gaza-kids-are-unvaccinated-hungry-and-orphaned-1.103958730

By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News
Published September 1, 2024

War must stop before a whole generation of Palestinian children is completely erased

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/ceasefire-negotiations-as-a-weapon-of-war/

By Malak Hijazi

Published August 25, 2024 

Our hope for a ceasefire has been weaponized against us. Every time politicians issue statements, mediators shuttle between capitals, headlines promise a breakthrough, and then it all falls apart. And every time, my hope breaks me.

Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240830-zionism-is-the-racist-ideology-that-destroys-kills-and-persecutes/

By Sayid Marcos Tenório

Published August 30, 2024