Soccer Dad: Gaza: you can never have too many snickers bars

May 25, 2010

Gaza: you can never have too many snickers bars

A fleet of nine ships from Europe and Arab states is making another attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The Daily Alert blog excerpts a Financial Times article:

The prices of many smuggled goods have fallen in recent months, thanks to a supply glut. Tunnels have become so efficient that shops all over Gaza are bursting with goods.
Coca-Cola, Nescafe, Snickers and Heinz ketchup are both cheap and widely available. Tunnel operators have also flooded Gaza with Korean refrigerators, German food mixers and Chinese air conditioning units. "Everything I demand, I can get," says Abu Amar al-Kahlout, who sells household goods out of a warehouse big enough to accommodate a passenger jet.

Apparently, despite the bounty, Ismail Haniyeh just doesn't have quite enough Snickers bars. Somehow I doubt anyone would consider his lack of snackfoods a humanitarian crisis.

Posted by SoccerDad at May 25, 2010 6:26 AM

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