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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: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/4/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza

By Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares

Published September 4, 2025

Washington shields Israel as it commits the darkest of crimes, but the family of nations still has the means and duty to act.

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-wests-reckoningis-the-tide-finally-turning-against-israel/

By Ramzy Baroud 

Published September 3, 2025

The precious blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza deserves for history to be finally altered.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-09-11/ty-article-opinion/the-world-is-setting-a-price-for-israels-war-in-gaza/00000199-3a51-d3db-a999-bb7122bc0000

By Haaretz Editorial

Published September 11, 2025

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, September 14, 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 51)

The Hague, 12 September 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-truth-about-western-colonialism-unmasked

By Jonathan Cook
Published September 9, 2025

Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, Western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/we-israelis-are-part-of-a-crime-family-its-our-job-to-fight-against-it-from-within/00000198-ff06-d2dc-afde-ff1f611a0000

By Michael Sfard

Published August 31, 2025

The criminal, felonious, unforgivable project of Gaza's destruction is an all-Israeli project. It could not have happened without the cooperation – whether through active contribution or silence – of all parts of Jewish Israeli society

Source: + 972 Magazine

https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-statehood-israeli-apartheid-recognition/

By Alaa Salama

Published August 29, 2025

The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-truth-about-western-colonialism-unmasked

By Jonathan Cook

Published September 9, 2025

Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, Western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up