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Israel Is Planning an ‘Inland Suez Canal’ Across Its Desert. At What Cost?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news ^ | Jan 17, 2023 | Moshe Gilad

Posted on 11/05/2023 4:02:06 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK

Israel Is Planning an ‘Inland Suez Canal’ Across Its Desert. At What Cost? Israel's planned high-speed train to Eilat: dream or potential environmental train wreck?

In theory, it sounds amazing: a high-speed train to Eilat, the country’s southernmost city on the shores of the Red Sea. This was attested to by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his recent Knesset speech enumerating the new government’s goals, in which he described it as a major national project: “The mission is to develop the country’s infrastructures, including developing a high-speed rail that will travel hundreds of kilometers per hour and connect the country from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat.”

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TOPICS: Education; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: ashdod; canal; canals; commerce; eilat; highspeedrail; highspeedtrain; israel; kiryatshmona; medred; sinai; suezcanal; train; waronterror; worldtrade
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Hamas won’t exist when the first rail is laid... Hamas is dead man walking.


21 posted on 11/06/2023 4:54:18 AM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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