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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: Thinking Palestine

https://thinkingpalestine.com/blueprint-of-failure-on-iran-gaza-and-how-europe-plotted-its-own-irrelevance/

By Romana Rubeo

Published May 8, 2026

From Iran to Palestine, from Ukraine to quiet acquiescence under American dictates, Europe appears increasingly devoid of strategic direction. Worse still, in this critical reading of Europe’s relationship with the Middle East—and with its own future—Italian journalist and intellectual Romana Rubeo argues that the continent is not merely adrift, but actively complicit in charting a course toward its own decline.

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/empires-rise-and-fall-could-trumps-iran-fiasco-be-americas-suez-crisis/

By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

Pulisheed May 12, 2026

The crisis with Iran is at least as catastrophic for US imperialism as the Suez Crisis was for the British Empire. The question is whether anyone in Washington today is capable of grasping the gravity of the crisis and making the required policy shift.

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 86)

The Hague, 11 May 2026 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 85)

The Hague, 08 May 2026 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/europes-moral-crisis-the-crumbling-shield-around-israel/

By Ramzy Baroud
Published April 30, 2026

Europe now knows that a genocide has been committed. This paradigm shift is unlikely to be reversed, regardless of whether Luxembourg’s bureaucrats manage to delay the inevitable.

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2026-05-01/west-bubble-illusion-israel/

Published May1, 2026

The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-05-01/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/germany-had-a-grand-settlement-project-it-collapsed-overnight/0000019d-e4e7-dba5-a1ff-ede77bb10000

By Ofri Ilany

Published May 1, 2026

Over a century ago, German settlers took over lands in the east, obtained state support, and made the locals' lives miserable. Like their Israeli counterparts today, they, too, thought they were there to stay

Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/europes-moral-crisis-the-crumbling-shield-around-israel/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published April 30, 2026

Europe now knows that a genocide has been committed. This paradigm shift is unlikely to be reversed, regardless of whether Luxembourg’s bureaucrats manage to delay the inevitable.

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 84)

The Hague, 4 May 2026 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching