By Andrew L. Jaffee

Just when you thought the Palestinian world couldn’t get any weirder (e.g., a civil war)… From the Gulf Times:

A corrugated metal shack shielding them from the zealous eye of authority, five smugglers shovel their booty into a tunnel traversing the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

“Weapons? No market anymore. Now it’s cigarettes and Viagra,” puffs one of the Palestinians…

And in the border town of Rafah, people accuse Hamas of exercising a monopoly on the juiciest products by organising smuggling rings through its own tunnels. …