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://mercyaiken.substack.com/p/from-amman-looking-towards-palestine

By Mercy Aiken

Published March 12, 2026

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-03-24/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-messianists-and-netanyahu-share-a-dream-perpetual-war/0000019d-1c1f-d1fb-a7df-1fffac240000

By Noa Limone

Published March 24, 2026

Judging by the religious-messianic atmosphere that is taking hold in our country, the aspiration is that the war won't come to an end. The war is a divine tool for realizing the vision of Greater Israel

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-palestine-to-iran-what-arab-and-muslim-silence-really-reveals/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published March 24, 2026

Why Arab regimes failed Palestine—and why asking the question obscures deeper structures of power, complicity, and regional political alignment.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-190769117

By Ilan Pappé

Published March 12, 2026

Messianic Zionism, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israel's War Without End

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-03-17/ty-article-opinion/.premium/what-will-netanyahu-do-when-trump-demands-payback-for-the-iran-war/0000019c-f7e8-df50-a9de-f7f9f2030000

By Aluf Benn

Published March 17, 2026

Is Trump working for Netanyahu, or the opposite? While public opinion holds that the U.S. was dragged by Israel into an unnecessary Middle East war, an opposite interpretation, no less persuasive, can also be presented

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/saving-the-middle-east-the-map-begins-with-palestinian-justice/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published March 12, 2026

Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire globe.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/iran-and-palestine-from-yasser-arafat-to-hamas-is-the-balancing-act-over/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published March 10, 2026

Will the war on Iran strengthen the Gaza-centered resistance camp and reshape Palestinian alliances across the Middle East? 

https://ghadakarmi.substack.com/p/israel-deletes-palestine

By Ghada Karmi

Published March 3, 2026

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-03-09/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israels-war-with-iran-is-turning-the-country-into-a-nation-of-bomb-shelters/0000019c-cece-d7ea-abdd-dfff4f020000

By Odeh Bisharat

Published March 9, 2026

Across the Middle East, graveyards are crowded with leaders killed by the United States and Israel, who have since been replaced by the next generation of dictators. Meanwhile, Israel's own fascist government drills its citizens to enter the shelters in perfect, complacent order