YOU will appreciate the headline above if you pronounce the ‘t’ softly as Anthony Quinn does in The Guns of Navarone, when Gregory Peck proffers his hand for a goodbye in a way that reflects his fears for Quinn’s life in German-occupied Greece. Quinn understands Peck’s fears and replies with a smile: “Don’t worry. I am not easy to kill.” If Quinn were in today’s occupied Palestine — or beyond, as in Lebanon, Syria or Iran — he would find it is the other way around, because it is easy to kill wherever and whenever Israel wants.

Before me on my breakfast table is Dawn’s issue of the day. One heading that dominates the back page screams, ‘At least 20 killed as Israel continues attacks on Lebanon’. A few inches down is another headline: ‘Journalist among 11 killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza.’

I turn the page and the headline that gives bad news runs across six columns on top. It is about Lebanese environmentalist Mona Khalil. Born in Nigeria to Lebanese parents, she chose to live in Lebanon, where she dedicated her life to protecting sea turtles. She was murdered by Israel in the village of Mandouri. Another headline draws my attention. It is a four-line affair in a bigger font. Another........

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