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.972mag.com/gaza-suffering-palestinian-journalists/

By Mohammed R. Mhawish

Published May 3, 2024

Palestinians have been the sole journalists persistently reporting from the ground in Gaza. Yet it feels that the world is losing interest in our stories.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-genocide-in-gaza-will-also-be-the-end-of-israel/

By HAIDAR EID

Published May 1, 2024 

The more resistance that the colonized shows, the more brutal the colonizer becomes. Genocidal Israel is now walking in the footsteps of all other settler colonies on their deathbed.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2505586

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Published May 6, 2024

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/antisemitism-hoax-drowned-out-discovery-mass-graves-gaza

By Jonathan Cook

Published April 26, 2024

In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby knew it would score a victory, whatever happened

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/26/craig-murray-worse-than-you-can-imagine/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ab6bdf76-7c5d-4a0f-9d4f-479c7df1a70b

By Craig Murray

Published April 26, 2024

The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-rafah-invasion-will-be-catastrophic/

By MITCHELL PLITNICK

Published April 27, 2024

The impending Rafah invasion will be even worse than anything we've seen so far. And the U.S. is just going to watch it happen. 

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/namibia-gaza-solidarity

By Ramzy Baroud

Published April 21, 2024

The Israeli brutality in Gaza, but also the Palestinian sumud, resilience and resistance, are inspiring the Global South to reclaim its centrality in anti-colonial liberation struggles.

https://juicyecumenism.com/2024/04/11/tucker-carlson-questions-israel/

By Jeffrey Walton

Published April 11, 2024

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/an-iranian-retaliation-is-coming-this-is-why-analysis/

By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo

Published April 12, 2024