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.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2025/05/05/all-of-gaza-israel-plans-full-gazan-takeover-in-new-operation-titled-gideon-chariots.html

By The Week News Desk

Published May 5, 2025

Israeli Cabinet ministers approved a sweeping military push and indefinite control of Gaza amid growing dissent among its reservists and international backlash

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/fires-ablaze-in-a-stolen-land-a-failing-zionist-project-in-flames/

By Ronnie Kasrils

Published May 1, 2025

The genocidal apartheid state requests the West for help to fight the fires, whilst, without any scruples whatsoever, its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/04/747363/Israel-s-systematic-blockaded-on-Gaza-starving-29000-children-to-death

By Press TV staff

Published May 4, 2025

Nearly 290,000 Palestinian children are “on the brink of death” in Gaza as Israel continues to use starvation as a weapon of war, Palestinian officials say.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yom-hashoah-holocaust-survivors-against-gaza-war-say-never-again-anyone

By Simon Hooper

Published April 23, 2025

Survivors and descendants say official commemoration ignores outrage and accusations of genocide levelled at Israel over deaths of more than 51,000 Palestinians

https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2597988

By Osama Al-Sharif

Published April 22, 2025

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-04-22/ty-article-opinion/dont-look-away-israels-annexation-of-the-west-bank-is-already-here/00000196-5f03-db89-a5d7-df1303240000

By Haaretz Editorial

Published April 22, 2025

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to-speak-the-wests-silence-on-gaza/

By Ilan Pappe 

Published April 19, 2025

The Palestinians do not have the luxury for Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small but important step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2597877

By Dr Ranzy Baroud

Published April 21, 2025

https://jfjfp.com/the-gaza-playbook-israels-five-step-ethnic-cleansing-strategy/

Mohamad Elmasry writes in Middle East Eye on 16 April 2025

Israel is executing a longstanding Zionist plan to expel Palestinians and realise 'Greater Israel': silence the press, kill, starve, destroy, seek diplomatic cover