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.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article/.premium/performance-punishment-or-policy-what-would-recognizing-palestine-really-mean/00000197-165c-de0d-a7f7-b67f167b0000

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Published May 28, 2025

Nearly 150 countries have already recognized Palestinian statehood, with more in train. Opposing them are Israelis who dream of annexation, and even some Palestinians tired of symbolic declarations. Can the new French-Saudi two-state initiative break the mold?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-genocide-gaza-war-demographics

By Joseph Massad

Published May 23, 2025

Behind the mass killing and expulsion of Palestinians lies a strategic imperative: to restore Jewish demographic dominance across all territory under Israeli colonial control

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/the-war-where-womens-bodies-lost-their-rights/

By Mariam Khateeb

Published May 19, 2025

The war in Gaza is not only the story of rubble and airstrikes. It is the story of the girl getting her period under bombardment, the mother bleeding in silence and miscarrying on cold floors or giving birth under drones.

https://jfjfp.com/top-genocide-scholars-unanimous-that-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-dutch-investigation/

Sondos Asem reports in Middle East Eye on 17 May 2025

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/preliminary-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-reached-between-hamas-trump-envoy/

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

Published May 26, 2025

Washington is reportedly pressuring Tel Aviv to halt its Gaza offensive as Hamas signals conditional readiness for a long-term ceasefire.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2602227

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published May 26, 2025

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-14/ty-article/.premium/trump-ups-pressure-to-end-gaza-war-but-netanyahu-isnt-ready-to-surrender/00000196-cdb2-df59-abde-efba60e50000

By Ravit Hecht

Published May 14, 2025

After the U.S.-backed release of hostage Edan Alexander, Netanyahu quickly clarified it won't necessarily advance a broader deal. Meanwhile, his focus on defeating Hamas signals the ultra-Orthodox can forget about the conscription exemption law

https://www.972mag.com/gazan-children-starving-israeli-siege/

By Ahmed Ahmed and Ruwaida Amer

Published May 8, 2025

With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade on the Strip has left parents to watch helplessly as their children waste away.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-historic-hamas-us-deal-what-are-its-potential-implications/

By Robert Inlakesh

Published May 12, 2025

Do we employ Occam’s Razor and assume the obvious, or is the American President up to some broader agenda that is being shrouded in obscurity?