Building the Bridge > Common Grounds https://buildingthebridge.eu en-US Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:45:25 +0100 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:45:25 +0100 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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Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: ‘This is the last phase of Zionism’ https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-is-the-last-phase-of-zionism/2256 Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-is-the-last-phase-of-zionism

 

By Anealla Safdar

Published January 14, 2025

 

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:03:48 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Penguins, Zionism, and the Instinct for Survival https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/penguins-zionism-and-the-instinct-for-survival/2255 Source: IslamiCity

https://www.islamicity.org/103854/penguins-zionism-and-the-instinct-for-survival/

 

By Muhammad Shahid Alam

Published January 11, 2025

 

Zionists have sought to delegitimize Palestinian opposition to Zionism or Jewish settler-colonialization of their lands by accusing them of antisemitism, that is, of harboring hatred for Jews as such, not because of what they had/have been doing to Palestinians.

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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:03:43 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
‘We Die, So They May Live’: Struggling for Survival amid Gaza’s Rubble https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gaza-s-rubble/2257 Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-die-so-they-may-live-struggling-for-survival-amid-gazas-rubble/

 

By Donya Abu Sitta

Published January 11, 2025

 

Amid the rubble of Gaza, survivors recount harrowing tales of endurance, loss, and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation.

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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:03:53 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Jimmy Carter: A utopian dove or a shrewd driver of US empire? https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/jimmy-carter-a-utopian-dove-or-a-shrewd-driver-of-us-empire/2249 Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-jimmy-carter-utopian-dove-shrewd-driver-empire

 

By Nazia Kazi

Published December 30, 2024

 

The late president's greatest success was his ability to carry out the task assigned to all US presidents: expansion of an empire for the purpose of enriching a ruling elite

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Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:53:28 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Israel cannot lose a ‘humanity’ it never had https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/israel-cannot-lose-a-humanity-it-never-had/2248 Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israel-cannot-lose-a-humanity-it-never-had/

 

By James Ray

Published January 2, 2025

 

A recent Haaretz editorial claimed, "Israel Is Losing Its Humanity in Gaza," but this ignores the brutal history of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, of which the Gaza genocide is just the latest chapter.

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Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:53:22 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Genocide: The New Normal https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/genocide-the-new-normal/2251 Source: The Chris Hedges Report

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/genocide-the-new-normal

 

By Chris Hedges

Published January 6, 2025

 

Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.

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Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:53:33 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
Inside ‘Greater Israel’: myths and truths behind the long-time Zionist fantasy https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/inside-greater-israel-myths-and-truths-behind-the-long-time-zionist-fantasy/2242 Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/inside-greater-israel-myths-and-truths-behind-the-long-time-zionist-fantasy/

 

By Qassam Muaddi

Published December 17, 2024

 

The expansive territorial ambitions of creating a "Greater Israel" once seemed only to be a right-wing Zionist fantasy. Today, current events in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria show it might be closer than many ever thought possible.

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Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:05:19 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
'We Need to Protect the Palestinians in the Name of a Shared Future,' Says Israeli-German Philosopher Omri Boehm https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/we-need-to-protect-the-palestinians-in-the-name-of-a-shared-future-says-israeli-german-philosopher-omri-boehm/2241 Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-14/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/israelis-need-to-protect-the-palestinians-in-the-name-of-a-shared-future/00000193-c0a8-d80a-ad9b-f6ad32780000

 

By Netta Ahituv

Published December 14, 2024

 

The Israeli left, since October 7, has shown itself no less deserving of criticism than the global left, says the Israeli-German philosopher Omri Boehm, a universalist who advocates a one-state solution as the only way to achieve full human equality here

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Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:39:05 +0100 dzamta@gmail.com (Webmaster)
I am living my own Nakba https://buildingthebridge.eu/common-ground/general-4/i-am-living-my-own-nakba/2243 Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/22/i-am-living-my-own-nakba

 

By Asem Al Jerjawi

Published December 22, 2024

 

I have lost my home and I feel I may be losing my homeland too.

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