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.arabnews.com/node/2644036

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published May 18, 2026

https://jfjfp.com/pax-silica-the-gaza-genocide-and-the-crisis-of-global-capitalism/

William I. Robinson and M. Gürsan Şenalp write in Mondoweiss on 24 May 2026 

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-05-20/western-leaders-charade-democracies/

By Jonathan Cook 

Published May 20, 2026

The super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces – to prevent change

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/israels-path-not-taken

Published May 15, 2026

A memoir by the son of an Israeli general who took up the Palestinian cause shows what might have been

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/territorial-imperialism-returns-what-lies-behind-the-israeli-assault-on-iran/

By Ilan Pappe

Published May 24, 2026

From Israel’s early alliance with the Shah’s Iran to the rise of messianic Zionism and expanding regional warfare, a pressing question has resurfaced amid the 2026 assault on Iran: what truly lies behind Israel’s confrontation with Tehran? In this critical reading, Ilan Pappé argues that the answer extends far beyond security or nuclear concerns, locating the conflict instead within a broader ideological project rooted in Zionism, territorial expansion, and the long-standing effort to reshape the Middle East in ways inseparable from the Palestinian question.

https://www.newarab.com/analysis/what-happens-if-israel-ends-oslo-accords

By Mohammed Omer

Published May 20, 2026

A new bill in Israel seeks to cancel the Oslo Accords. Though defunct in practice, their formal collapse could open the door to de jure West Bank annexation

https://substack.com/home/post/p-197739713

By Ramzy Baroud

Published May 14, 2026

The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians

https://codepink.substack.com/p/the-fuel-to-my-revolutionary-optimism

By CODEPINK staff

Published May 14, 2026

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-05-06/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-didnt-go-wrong-it-was-always-built-this-way/0000019d-fe78-df19-af9d-fffb97010000

By Gideon Levy

Published May 6, 2026

Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate