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> their canal monopoly An alternative is technically possible since Israel has contiguous territory between the Mediterranean and Red Sea: https://www.business
by Lammy 5y ago
> their canal monopoly
An alternative is technically possible since Israel has contiguous territory between the Mediterranean and Red Sea: https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/the-us-had-a-plan-in-the-1960s-to-blast-an-alternative-suez-canal-through-israel-using-520-nuclear-bombs/articleshow/81690122.cms https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/the-us-had-a-pla...
- baybal2 5y agoThe straight of Tiran, and Aqaba are still largely under Egyptian control.
- gpt5 5y agoThe straight of Tiran are open to all ship traffic. Last time Egypt tried to impose a blockade on them, Israel considered it as an act of war which resulted in the six day war (where Egypt lost control of all the Sinai peninsula up to the Suez Canal. Aqaba is a Jordanian port.
- marc__1 5y agoFor those curious, the list of books that cover the geopolitics of the Suez Canal (way before the current one) is extensive and include: Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace The Suez Crisis: The History of the Suez Canal’s Nationalization by Egypt and the War that Followed 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
- austhrow743 5y agoRead all three? Have a favourite?
- ben_w 5y agoA plan which involves 520 nukes of 2 megatons each, putting it roughly in the same ball park as some of the Project Orion proposals. I mean, you might accidentally solve the Middle East peace process if nobody wants to live there any more, but I don’t think it will be a popular solution to either that or the Suez monopoly…
- munk-a 5y agoWell Israel might be pretty excited since the plans take that canal through the Gaza Strip which is an area that the government has wanted to displace elsewhere for quite some time.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSharing canal revenues with Gaza Strip residents might solve their poverty and unemployment problems.
- arcticbull 5y agoMan the 60s were really a time of laissez-faire nuclear projects huh. I mean I'll be the first to say the pendulum has swung too far the other way but boy were they ever enthusiastic.
- reaperducer 5y agoIt seems that every time someone invents a new hammer, people use it to solve every problem, whether it's the right tool for the job or not. When viewed through the lens of hindsight, the advertisements are quite amusing. In the 1890's it was "electricity." In the 1920's it was "radio." In the 1940's it was "radar." In the 1950's it was "atomic" everything. In the 1960's it as "space" this and "space" that. In the 1970's it was "jet." In the 1990's it was "cyber." Today, it's "blockchain" and "AI." Some of it works. Most of it is snake oil. But people keep buying based on trendy keywords. People are just built that way.
- allendoerfer 5y agoHas blockchain solved a single problem yet?
- travem 5y agoHow to get paid for Ransomware attacks?
- paxys 5y agoBecause another complex geopolitical nightmare is exactly what that region needs..
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- ant6n 5y agoWow this website is fucked up. Half way through reading this adfest it jumps to some other article and messes around with the browser history, even reader display wont prevent it. Now I’ll never know whether they executed that plan or not.
- Lammy 5y agoSorry, my bad. I never browse without uBO and didn't notice.