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/2025/9/4/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza

By Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares

Published September 4, 2025

Washington shields Israel as it commits the darkest of crimes, but the family of nations still has the means and duty to act.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-wests-reckoningis-the-tide-finally-turning-against-israel/

By Ramzy Baroud 

Published September 3, 2025

The precious blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza deserves for history to be finally altered.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-09-11/ty-article-opinion/the-world-is-setting-a-price-for-israels-war-in-gaza/00000199-3a51-d3db-a999-bb7122bc0000

By Haaretz Editorial

Published September 11, 2025

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/we-israelis-are-part-of-a-crime-family-its-our-job-to-fight-against-it-from-within/00000198-ff06-d2dc-afde-ff1f611a0000

By Michael Sfard

Published August 31, 2025

The criminal, felonious, unforgivable project of Gaza's destruction is an all-Israeli project. It could not have happened without the cooperation – whether through active contribution or silence – of all parts of Jewish Israeli society

https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-statehood-israeli-apartheid-recognition/

By Alaa Salama

Published August 29, 2025

The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-truth-about-western-colonialism-unmasked

By Jonathan Cook

Published September 9, 2025

Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, Western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zikim-where-gazas-starving-risk-death-for-a-bag-of-flour/

By Shaimaa Eid

Published August 30, 2025

On this road, the stories of grieving mothers, orphaned children, and wounded survivors intersect, their bodies bearing living testimony to the brutality of the occupation.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-24/ty-article/.premium/the-gaza-famine-report-netanyahus-attack-aims-to-hide-the-truth-from-israelis/00000198-dc05-daa7-a7fc-dc3f4ada0000

By Nir Hasson

Published August 24, 2025

Israel rushed to discredit the report that determined Gaza is suffering from the highest level of famine. But lies and victim-playing do not change one basic fact: Israel starved Gazans until the world intervened

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2612975

By Dr Ramzy Baroud 

Published August 25, 2025