Where there is massive amounts of smuggling there are officials who get paid to look the other way in arab cultures. This general is protecting the smuggling not ending it, follow the money.

Apart from Iran, Israel also faces threats particularly from the Arab states Syria and Egypt–both because of the direct and indirect aid they supply to the terror organizations surrounding Israel, and because of their own hostility and military build-ups. Egypt has been relentlessly building up its armed forces and absorbing state-of-the-art American weaponry since the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Syria is militarily weaker but its ballistic-missile threat to Israel (along with Egypt’s) is very serious. For a global explaination of the Middle-East reality : http://xrl.us/biz8x