Matt Duss reports on how Israel's border restrictions have reshaped society in the Palestinian enclave:
The result of the policy of closure … has been the development of a sizable black market economy based upon illegal tunnel trade. This has been accompanied by the growth of influential constituencies in both Egypt and Gaza that oppose any effort to shut down the tunnels, and will lobby hard against the creation of a more open, regulated border. By empowering a large new merchant class that profits from the tunnels, the closure policy has effectively created another stumbling block to normalization of relations between Israel and the Palestinians.
And that wasn't the point?
The Dish 