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://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

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.

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

By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

Published 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.

https://clarionindia.net/why-didnt-iran-put-gaza-on-the-table-a-difficult-answer/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published May 9, 2026

From Gaza to Tehran, from the politics of resistance to the limits of regional diplomacy, a pressing question has resurfaced amid the 2026 war: why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? In this critical reading, Ramzy Baroud challenges the assumption of abandonment, arguing instead that the answer lies in the fragmented nature of Palestinian representation and the uneven political architecture of the resistance camp itself.