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1. wouldn't the distance be shorter to mediterranean ?
i believe that between england and france they each had a tunnel boring machine left over from their chunnel?if you cut underneath israel from the mediterranean at its shortest distance to the jorden river further down from the sea of galilee wouldnt that be cheaper?surely sea water pouring into the dead sea is better than no water until G-D straightens out the rest of the mess people have made of the earth?
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2. #1 - topographically, connecting the Red Sea is easier.
If you were to dig from the Meidterratnean to the dead sea, you would have to endure a lot of topographical challenges, namely the Judea mountains. Bear in mind that the Dead sea is 400 meters below sea level - this would entail a very large difference in elevations. The Red Sea is easier to connect, as the Arava is not that high, and the proposed tunnel would go right along the Syrian-African fault line.
Another reason for the choosing the Red Sea is that the tunnel would be along Israel's border, where no one is present, instead of cutting through Israel's roads, fields and populated areas.
Still, one would have to consider the serious ecological ramifications of such project, as the greens suggest.
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3. The canal will be in Jordan
The Jordanians want the canal - all the international money will pour into Jordan for the construction of this project. There are no green parties or activists in Jordan and no one will oppose it there. On our side, the PM and the president will shut up and let this take place. The greens in Israel, who hold up every single development project (for better or for worse) will have no say in this matter.
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True Greens would not appose this program for the following reasons:
The Red-Dead is supposed to provide green electricity.
The size of the dead sea, has been rapidly shrinking. Why? because the Jordan River which used to be a significant source of practicly fresh water into the Sea. The same again can be said for the Arnon in Jordan which also has been cut off as a tributary to the Dead sea. Adding Sea water to the lake should not change the water chemistry as much as fresh water, so we should be able to add at least as much sea water volume from the Red as we have cut off from the Jordan and Arnon. Salt in the Dead sea is over the point of solutation, meaning you can not make it any salier, if you add water, it will desolve some of the salt laying on the bottom of the lake and, the chemical character of the water is thus buffered to a very large degree.
There are ramifications to not raising the sea level of the dead sea. As the lake drops, the water table drops with it. On the rare occation when it does rain then, salt which was under the groundtable gets exposed to fresh rain water and desolves. This has already, since the 1990's has resulted in large pits that suddenly appear, where the mass of salt used to be, one of these pits was under a road and a bus almost fell into this pit.
But Greens usually can't be bothered with complex issues, they usually are guided by beliefs and not open to the facts.
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