Excerpts from a brief article at
Spiegel Online:
Egypt and Saudi Arabia hope to construct a giant bridge spanning the
Gulf of Aqaba for road and rail traffic. Officials at Egypt's Ministry
of Transportation have confirmed to SPIEGEL that the project, under
discussion since 1988, has finally been approved...
The Gulf of Aqaba runs along the eastern edge of the Sinai Peninsula.
Plans call for the 32-kilometer (20-mile) bridge to cross the narrow
Strait of Tiran from Ras Nasrani, near the Egyptian resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh, to Ras Hamid in northwestern Saudi Arabia...
For the Arabs, the massive construction project would be a triumph. For
the first time since 1948, when the modern state of Israel was founded,
Arab states in North Africa would have a direct road link with fellow
Arab states in the Middle East without having to cross Israeli
territory.
Western diplomats view the announcement as being strategically timed to bolster Egypt's weak government.
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Central Intelligence Agency.
And now I know the first thing Israel will blow up next time everyone decides to invade them.
ReplyDeleteHah - only today I heard someone refer to a Jewish friend as a Red Sea Pedestrian - a phrase he hadn't heard before, and which I hadn't heard for many years. Luckily he thought it was funny.
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