Building the Bridge > Common Grounds https://buildingthebridge.eu en-US Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:34:47 +0200 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:34:47 +0200 FeedWriter THINK! | A Way to Getting to Know the OTHER and One ANOTHER https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/think-a-way-to-getting-to-know-the-other-and-one-another/50 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.

]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:56:57 +0200 sergio@a-side.nl (Administrator) Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/four-reasons-why-israel-s-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-west-bank-is-being-accepted-by-the-world/2335 Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four-reasons-why-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-west-bank-is-being-accepted-by-the-world/

 

By Qassam Muaddi

Published March 21, 2025

 

Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1948. But there is hope a new world is being born.

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:17:30 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) Palestinians are pleading for an end to the Gaza war. No one is listening https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/palestinians-are-pleading-for-an-end-to-the-gaza-war-no-one-is-listening/2334 Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinians-are-pleading-end-gaza-war-no-one-listening

 

By Ahmed Najar

Published March 27, 2025

 

Protesters are calling on both Israel and Hamas to relieve their misery, while the media only amplifies whatever angle suits its narrative

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:53:31 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) The complete idiot’s guide to world affairs https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/the-complete-idiot-s-guide-to-world-affairs/2336 Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-26/idiots-guide-world-affairs/

 

By Jonathan Cook

Published March 26, 2025

 

The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe

]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:30:52 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) 'The occupation wants nothing but suffering for us': Gazans face catastrophic humanitarian crisis amid Israel's Ramadan blockade https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/the-occupation-wants-nothing-but-suffering-for-us-gazans-face-catastrophic-humanitarian-crisis-amid-israels-ramadan-blockade/2331 Source: The New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/features/israels-ramadan-blockade-reaches-catastrophic-levels-gaza 

 

By Mohamed Solaimane

Published March 13, 2025

 

By sealing all crossings into Gaza, Israel is preventing much-needed humanitarian aid from reaching the enclave’s 2.3 million residents this Ramadan

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:24:30 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) Opinion | It Doesn't Matter What the UN Report on Gaza Says. Israel Will Ignore It Anyway https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/opinion-it-doesnt-matter-what-the-un-report-on-gaza-says-israel-will-ignore-it-anyway/2330 Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/it-doesnt-matter-what-the-un-report-on-gaza-says-israel-will-ignore-it-anyway/00000195-ae75-d9db-a3bf-ff7f2c5f0000

 

By Becca Strober

Published March 19, 2025

 

Israeli officials labeled the report on gender-based violence 'antisemitic' and 'a blood libel.' Israeli society too dismisses human rights abuses. We have mastered the art of willful blindness

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:03:51 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) Would it be okay for Hamas to strike a hospital treating Benjamin Netanyahu? https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/would-it-be-okay-for-hamas-to-strike-a-hospital-treating-benjamin-netanyahu/2332 Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-24/hamas-hospital-strike-netanyahu/

 

By Jonathan Cook

Published March 24, 2025

 

Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:49:32 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) Palestine question a key test of US foreign policy https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/palestine-question-a-key-test-of-us-foreign-policy/2327 Source: Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2593895

 

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published March 17, 2025

]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:19:45 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) 'Our enemies commit genocide, not our friends': Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on the double standards of calling out Israel's horrific crimes in Gaza https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/our-enemies-commit-genocide-not-our-friends-leading-genocide-scholar-and-lawyer-william-schabas-on-the-double-standards-of-calling-out-israels-horrific-crimes-in-gaza/2326 Source: The New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/features/william-schabas-genocide-others-why-not-gaza

 

By Sebastian Shehadi

Published March 11, 2025

 

The New Arab Meets: Lawyer William Schabas to examine why Israel's genocide in Gaza, including its self-defence rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court

]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:00:35 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster) Opinion | In the End, Hamas Remains https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/opinion-in-the-end-hamas-remains/2325 Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/only-hamas-remains/00000195-8bff-de2e-a195-9bff360d0000

 

By Gideon Levy

Published March 13, 2025

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