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It’s Time to Blame Israel For Easing the Boycott

Now that Israel's starting to ease up on the blockade, guess who's to blame for the collapse of the smuggling industry: A Palestinian boy holds a box of smuggled cigarettes near the entrance of an inactive…

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Now that Israel's starting to ease up on the blockade, guess who's to blame for the collapse of the smuggling industry:

Gaza

A Palestinian boy holds a box of smuggled cigarettes near the entrance of an inactive tunnel which links Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip border town of Rafah on June 21, 2010 after Israel announced it would allow into the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory everything that cannot be used by Gaza's Hamas rulers to build weapons or fortifications, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the tunnel trade that has largely sustained the coastal enclave. (Getty Images)

The tunnel looks inactive because of supply and demand, not because of the nasty Israelis. Adding insult to injury, this must be the longest run-on sentence I've ever seen in a photo-caption.

Related reading: Tunnel Vision

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