In its Oct. 22 edition, the New York Times publishes an article by its Gaza correspondent, Taghreed El-Khodari, about the lively commerce that moves into Gaza from Egypt via smuggling tunnels, which are designed to overcome an economic embargo by Cairo and Jerusalem against the Hamas-ruled territory ("Goods Flood Gaza's Tunnels, Turning Border With Egypt Into a Shopping Mecca" page A10).The article, with accompanying map and photos, is spread across half a page.  It enumerates in great detail the wide variety of goods that move through the tunnels -- many foodstuffs, but also many big-ticket items in huge quantities like motorcycles, and flat-screen TV sets.In one respect, the story provides an important corrective to the usual media reports about a grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza.  In this particular dispatch, we are told that tunnel business is so vast that its owners and operators have become millionaires and that Gazans have plenty of...(Read Full Post)