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.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/9/israels-starvation-denial-is-an-orwellian-farce

By Daoud Kuttab

Published August 9, 2025

The Israeli ‘hasbara’ cannot disprove the obvious, but it can obfuscate and exhaust.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/all-talk-no-action-why-doesnt-the-west-intervene-in-gaza/00000198-a271-dff4-a39e-abfb1f180000?lts=1755604478182

By Yagil Levy

Published August 13, 2025

Despite unprecedented civilian suffering and clear precedents for intervention, Western governments condemn Gaza's devastation but avoid any meaningful intervention

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-genocide-in-gaza-lets-talk-about-something-else/

By Jeremy Salt

Published August 15, 2025

The flurry of recognition of Palestinian statehood is performative politics. Unwilling to do anything to stop the genocide, the actors divert the attention of the audience by talking about something else.

https://groundviews.org/2025/07/31/from-toe-hold-to-freehold-zionist-occupation-strategies/

By Bishop Duleep de Chickera

Published July 31, 2025

https://jfjfp.com/while-there-is-still-a-state-to-recognise-israeli-annexation-plans-settlements-and-humanitarian-impacts/

Brian Brivati writes in the Britain Palestine Project Substack on 6 August 2025:

Israeli annexation plans, settlements, and humanitarian impacts.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2025-08-03/ty-article/.premium/un-two-state-solution-conference-leaves-israels-gaza-presence-hamas-fate-unresolved/00000198-6fd1-d0d4-adba-eff3934e0000

By Jack Khoury

Published August 3, 2025

In a document set to become a diplomatic benchmark, the conference co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia last week was the first to present sustainable operating principles, precise demands of both sides and offer mechanisms to ensure both Israel and the Palestinians meet their obligations – but left critical questions unanswered

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/its-not-just-war-its-genocide-and-its-being-done-in-our-name/00000198-5c7c-d843-af99-de7d5dfd0000?lts=1754396522067

By Gideon Levy

Published July 30, 2025

Two leading Israeli rights groups have named what others still deny: the campaign in Gaza is not just brutal or disproportionate – it is the deliberate destruction of a people. The evidence is overwhelming, the intent undeniable, and the silence complicit

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-humanitarian-crisis-facing-42000-forcibly-displaced-palestinians-in-the-west-bank/

By Zena al-Tahhan

Published July 28, 2025

Six months since Israel’s expanded military assault on the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, over 42,000 Palestinian refugees remain forcibly displaced and have no stable access to food, water, or shelter.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-two-state-solution-illusion-delusion-and-distraction/

By Jeremy Salt

Published August 2, 2025

The time is long past for Israel to be asked. It has to be told what to do or face consequences that the ‘international community’ will not just threaten but is prepared to see through.