Israel Is Planning an ‘Inland Suez Canal’ Across Its Desert. At What Cost?

A high speed train? I wonder if Hamas will consider it a target?

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Get Musk to do it with his boring machinery. He’ll wrap it up by the end of next year...and under budget.

Calling Elon Musk...He’d love to give a look see to a project like this...and we know...no one could do it better.

The country is less than 300 miles long. Is this really necessary?

“ A high speed train? I wonder if Hamas will consider it a target?”

Hamas won’t exist.

They should discuss this with my great state of California. We’re amazing at laying high speed rails.

Will US taxpayers be contributing

“on the shores of the Red Sea”

Gulf of Aqaba.

Have they laid any track for that yet?

“The country is less than 300 miles long. Is this really necessary?”

small countries with dense populations like japan are the only situations where high-speed trains make much sense ... in the case of israel, such a train might be a strategic defense measure ...

after all, at the height of the cold war, one of the major original rationales for constructing the U.S. Interstate Highway system was as a means to quickly move strategic military resources ...

developing a high-speed rail that will travel hundreds of kilometers per hour and connect the country from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat.”

I would like that.

Ha'aretz spewing some more of its everlasting hate. This "canal" is a high speed rail project.

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Any day now...any day

“ A high speed train? I wonder if Hamas will consider it a target?”

Hamas won’t exist.

Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Muslim Brotherhood, Yemen, Isis...

Jerusalem to the port is more like 200 miles. Highway right there. Gotta be doable.

Just in case there are Philistines to slay and you gotta get there quickly.

Aren’t canals by definition inland?

They may start or end in an ocean or sea or other body of water, but they aren’t in the ocean.

I have no doubt that if Israel wish to build this, it will be done correctly and work very well.