Gaza/Egypt border

With Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the border control got handed to egypt. The first days Egypt took a popular measure of opening the border so people could visit their families, etc... This was very nice of them, and probably improve heir image in Gaza, however, as usual in this type of case, the porous border was used to smuggle a big load of weapons into gaza, so much than NYT reports prices halved on AK-47 and handguns in Gaza. Is this doing any good ?
Obviously this just comfort the anti disengagement in Israel, that this was a bad thing to do for security, darkens even the picture of PA security forces that just look the other way when this happens.

Finally, I am almost not surprised to see that this is ignored by the french press which focuses on other aspects of the future of Gaza (economical ones, which will be fundamental if peace happens one day). So once again you get half the information reading the french press (like le Monde or Liberation) and the other half reading the US one (WP or NYT)and the remaining details with Israeli and Arab world press.