Still more important are the TV images of this event. I think the impact will be very strong in the international Arab and Muslim community, giving in the opinion something like that: "Israel/Occident are making the habitants of Gaza poor and refugees in their great Arab Muslim friend, Egypt".
That's not a change from the status quo, though. It's par for the course as far as the Middle Eastern Muslim world is concerned.
My opinion is that the best thing that the Palestinians could do for themselves is to abandon Hamas and terrorist tactics altogether. This is their biggest obstacle to winning the PR war on all fronts as they could no longer be called terrorists with any validity, so Israel couldn't justify the tactics they are currently using. Unfortunately this probably won't happen anytime soon.
I concur with John on this.
The Arabs hating Israel is nothing new here, either.
