The Financial Times reports on the infamous supposed humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Behold the horror of, um, shops bursting with goods. Try to hold back your lunch.

Hundreds of tunnels have shut down over the past year as a result of greater Egyptian efforts to stop the flow of goods – and weapons – into the strip. But the remaining tunnels, about 200 to 300 according to most estimates, have become so efficient that shops all over Gaza are bursting with goods.

Branded products such as Coca-Cola, Nescafé, Snickers and Heinz ketchup – long absent as a result of the Israeli blockade – are both cheap and widely available. However, the tunnel operators have also flooded Gaza with Korean refrigerators, German food mixers and Chinese air conditioning units. Tunnel operators and traders alike complain of a saturated market – and falling prices.

“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.

Oh, the horror! How these poor people can survive while having to deal with cheap, widely-available, high-quality goods is indeed a mystery. It’s a living condition unmatched since my trip to the local Walmart yesterday.

A note from Prime Minister Natanyahu: On five of the six flotilla ships, the Israeli commandos had a relatively easy time in securing the ships peacefully. In fact, only passengers on the last ship — the one that attacked commandos as they attempted to board initially with paintball guns — were harmed or killed.

Seems like the Israelis were quite capable of restraining their wicked selves until the “peace” activists began shooting at them while other activists beat them with a variety of weapons. It was only when their own lives were at risk that the Israeli commandos even considered direct violence. Funny that.