French officials said Canada could be in charge of enforcing a naval blockade off Libyan shores.

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Exports are banned, the naval blockade is still in place, and most Gazans cannot yet freely come and go.

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At the same time, America has been struggling without success to repair the breach between Israel and Turkey that followed Israel's killing of eight Turks and a Turkish-American on board the Mavi Marmara when it tried to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in May last year.

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Mr. MALLEY: Well, it certainly sounds like war, and I'm sure that for the people on the ground, whether in Lebanon or in Israel it's feeling very much like war, when you have a naval and sea blockade, when you have air strikes, when you have katyusha rockets fired into Israel.

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But a capital blockade is not physically obvious: There are no naval vessels or Air Force jets visibly interfering with ships and airplanes.

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