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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.

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

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, September 7, 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 50)

The Hague, 5 September 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2612975

By Dr Ramzy Baroud
Published August 25, 2025

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zikim-where-gazas-starving-risk-death-for-a-bag-of-flour/

By Shaimaa Eid

Published August 30, 2025

On this road, the stories of grieving mothers, orphaned children, and wounded survivors intersect, their bodies bearing living testimony to the brutality of the occupation.