Building the Bridge > Common Grounds https://buildingthebridge.eu en-US Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:45:23 +0200 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:45:23 +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.

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Analysis | Performance, Punishment or Policy: What Would Recognizing Palestine Really Mean? https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/analysis-performance-punishment-or-policy-what-would-recognizing-palestine-really-mean/2386 Source: Haaretz

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?

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Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:14:27 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Israel's genocide in Gaza is a war on demographics https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/israels-genocide-in-gaza-is-a-war-on-demographics/2385 Source: Middle East Eye

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

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Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:56:35 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
The war where women’s bodies lost their rights https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/the-war-where-women-s-bodies-lost-their-rights/2384 Source: Mondoweiss

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.

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Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:37:43 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: Dutch investigation https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/top-genocide-scholars-unanimous-that-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-dutch-investigation/2380 Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

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

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Tue, 27 May 2025 14:33:55 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Preliminary Gaza Ceasefire Agreement Reached between Hamas, Trump Envoy https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/preliminary-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-reached-between-hamas-trump-envoy/2379 Source: Palestine Chronicle

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.

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Tue, 27 May 2025 14:24:52 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Swift global intervention can halt Gaza genocide https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/swift-global-intervention-can-halt-gaza-genocide/2381 Source: Arab News

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

 

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published May 26, 2025

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Tue, 27 May 2025 14:47:06 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Analysis | Trump Pushes to End Gaza War, but Netanyahu Resists for Symbolic Victory https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/analysis-trump-pushes-to-end-gaza-war-but-netanyahu-resists-for-symbolic-victory/2375 Source: Haaretz

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

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Tue, 20 May 2025 15:04:10 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/she-s-dying-in-front-of-my-eyes-the-gazan-children-starving-under-israeli-siege/2374 Source: +972 Magazine

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.

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Tue, 20 May 2025 14:49:12 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
A Historic Hamas-US Deal – What are Its Potential Implications? https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/a-historic-hamas-us-deal-what-are-its-potential-implications/2370 Source: Palestine Chronicle

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?

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Tue, 13 May 2025 15:21:12 +0200 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)