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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.

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, August 10, 2025

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 46)

The Hague, 08 August 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Palestine Chronicle
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.

Source: Haaretz

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

Source: Mondoweiss

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.

Source: Palestine Chronicle

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.

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, August 3, 2025 

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 45)

The Hague, 01 August 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2025-07-24/ty-article/.premium/for-pitys-sake-stop-this-now-gaza-crisis-takes-front-page-across-global-media/00000198-3d84-d5d4-a9fd-7fe7c31c0000?lts=1753791153704&lts=1753791293091

By Rachel Fink

Published July 24, 2025

Wednesday's front page of the right-wing The Daily Express – of a starving Gazan child, with a plea to end the war – marked a tonal shift in international media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as deaths from starvation rise