Common Grounds

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• Humanitarian Aid or Political Conspiracy – What Do Gazans Think of the American Pier

  
  May 14, 2024 15:49

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/humanitarian-aid-or-political-conspiracy-what-do-gazans-think-of-the-american-pier/

   

  By Noor Alyacoubi

  Published May 10, 2024

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• Biden’s war on Gaza is now a war on truth and the right to protest

  
  May 14, 2024 15:49

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/biden-war-gaza-now-war-on-truth-and-right-to-protest

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published May 10, 2024

   

  The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed

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• THINK! | A Way to Getting to Know the OTHER and One ANOTHER

  
  April 04, 2024 22:56

  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.

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