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Source: http://www.economist.com/node/16439024?story_id=16439024
Second Thoughts in Gaza on Lifting the Siege
(Economist-UK) Since Netanyahu's promise to ease the blockade, an eerie silence has fallen over Gaza's border with Egypt, which hitherto echoed to the whirl of a thousand winches hauling goods to the surface. Now shopkeepers fear being lumbered with shelves of unwanted tunnel-tattered products, as Israel's neater goods pour in. Some tunnellers, burdened by Hamas taxes and market saturation, are closing down. Others will survive: Marlboro cigarettes from Egypt are half the cost of Israel's version, even after Hamas' tax. Egyptian petrol is cheaper still.