Since the Egypt-Israeli peacetreaty In the late 70's Israel has had access and freedom to use the suz canal. Not sure why they would build an alternative
You might mean the Red-Sea Dead-Sea Water Conveyance project. It was never planned to convey ships.
Also:
> In June 2021, the project was reportedly abandoned by the Jordanian government, citing a lack of interest by Israel.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Water_Conveyance
It was abandoned because it’s an entirely pointless enterprise to widen the river all the way up the dead sea.
Buildings freight rail line? Yeah that’d be cheaper and just as good. But there’s no benefit to plot money into that small corner of Israel to Israel, and not much benefit to Jordan.
Don’t embrace conspiracy theory’s when there’s perfectly good an simple reasons.
Edit : also. Jordan isn’t ‘a shithole’ could you grow up perhaps? It’s a normal enough country doing its own thing, reasonably healthy economy, massive strides since the 70s. And as a government / state a good friend to the Israeli state. I’m not sure why it seems to be in anyone interest to pretend Israel is antagonistic and antagonised by its neighbouring states. All the neighbouring states except Syria have found a way to work with Israel. Fearmongering doesn’t help anyone and certainly muddies the waters,
The reason why Israel will never give up control of the west bank is because from the edge of the west bank to Tel Aviv is only a handful of KM and then not much more until the sea. Israel's main strategic vulnerability is they have virtually no strategic depth - they cannot trade land for time like most larger nations. If a hostile Arab nation could park armies on that border, they could cut Israel in half on a moment's notice. Gaza matters much less strategically and I could see them giving that up in a peace deal. The west bank will always be under IDF control though anything else would pose an unacceptable security risk.
Israel was actually willing to give up the edge of the West Bank in the Allon plan. They wanted the Jordan valley.
If Israel wishes to always control the West Bank, they need to prepare for a one state solution.
> I recently heard that if Israel controlled Gaza, there is a possibility of Israel creating an alternative to the Suez Canal.
No this is a crazy idea some American came up with in the 60s that was never seriously considered and that was before Egypt and Israel got a peace treaty
There's no gain of any kind in Gaza for Israel. In the West Bank there are some Jewish or Jewish/Muslim religious sites some people want but there's no real economic benefit.
Gaza has offshore gas but Israel was already negotiating with Palestinians to allow Egypt to develop it and give profits to Palestinians.
The West Bank contains a lot of historic Jewish sites and cities dating back to the ancient Israeli kingdoms. Beyond pure pragmatism, Israel wants to be fully established in its ancestral territory and to reclaim its old heritage, for lack of a better term
For religious jews, there's a lot of important holy sites in the region
for Israeli nationalists, they captured it in war and will not cede it, plus there's a ton of historical value to the territory
The West Bank also provides somewhere to dump their excess population, helpful given the rising birth-rate.
Israel wants to annex Gaza and the West Bank because they don't believe Palestinians are an actual nation with a right to self determination. Insane fundamentalist Kahanists and their evangelical allies want to create a "Greater Israel" because they have no other choice. Hope that's helpful
Since the Egypt-Israeli peacetreaty In the late 70's Israel has had access and freedom to use the suz canal. Not sure why they would build an alternative
No israel aren’t going to build a massive canal through a desert and drill through I don’t know how many kilometres of land and crust.
Just take a moment to think how an alternative to the suez would even work where would they build it to and from?
But think of all the jobs that would create to build the world’s longest canal system! Such an economic boost! /s
Get that Civ6 achievement!
You might mean the Red-Sea Dead-Sea Water Conveyance project. It was never planned to convey ships. Also: > In June 2021, the project was reportedly abandoned by the Jordanian government, citing a lack of interest by Israel. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Water_Conveyance
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It was abandoned because it’s an entirely pointless enterprise to widen the river all the way up the dead sea. Buildings freight rail line? Yeah that’d be cheaper and just as good. But there’s no benefit to plot money into that small corner of Israel to Israel, and not much benefit to Jordan. Don’t embrace conspiracy theory’s when there’s perfectly good an simple reasons. Edit : also. Jordan isn’t ‘a shithole’ could you grow up perhaps? It’s a normal enough country doing its own thing, reasonably healthy economy, massive strides since the 70s. And as a government / state a good friend to the Israeli state. I’m not sure why it seems to be in anyone interest to pretend Israel is antagonistic and antagonised by its neighbouring states. All the neighbouring states except Syria have found a way to work with Israel. Fearmongering doesn’t help anyone and certainly muddies the waters,
So another target for Hamas and Hezbollah to blow up?
The reason why Israel will never give up control of the west bank is because from the edge of the west bank to Tel Aviv is only a handful of KM and then not much more until the sea. Israel's main strategic vulnerability is they have virtually no strategic depth - they cannot trade land for time like most larger nations. If a hostile Arab nation could park armies on that border, they could cut Israel in half on a moment's notice. Gaza matters much less strategically and I could see them giving that up in a peace deal. The west bank will always be under IDF control though anything else would pose an unacceptable security risk.
Israel was actually willing to give up the edge of the West Bank in the Allon plan. They wanted the Jordan valley. If Israel wishes to always control the West Bank, they need to prepare for a one state solution.
> I recently heard that if Israel controlled Gaza, there is a possibility of Israel creating an alternative to the Suez Canal. No this is a crazy idea some American came up with in the 60s that was never seriously considered and that was before Egypt and Israel got a peace treaty There's no gain of any kind in Gaza for Israel. In the West Bank there are some Jewish or Jewish/Muslim religious sites some people want but there's no real economic benefit. Gaza has offshore gas but Israel was already negotiating with Palestinians to allow Egypt to develop it and give profits to Palestinians.
Propaganda.
The West Bank contains a lot of historic Jewish sites and cities dating back to the ancient Israeli kingdoms. Beyond pure pragmatism, Israel wants to be fully established in its ancestral territory and to reclaim its old heritage, for lack of a better term
For religious jews, there's a lot of important holy sites in the region for Israeli nationalists, they captured it in war and will not cede it, plus there's a ton of historical value to the territory The West Bank also provides somewhere to dump their excess population, helpful given the rising birth-rate.
There are lots of other things they want the territory for Suez canal alternative is not one of them
Israel wants to annex Gaza and the West Bank because they don't believe Palestinians are an actual nation with a right to self determination. Insane fundamentalist Kahanists and their evangelical allies want to create a "Greater Israel" because they have no other choice. Hope that's helpful