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To receive Global Research\u2019s Daily Newsletter (selected articles),\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Click the share button above to email\/forward this article to your friends and colleagues. Follow us on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and subscribe to our\u00a0Telegram Channel<\/a>.\u00a0Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles.<\/p>\n ***<\/em><\/p>\n Incisive and carefully documented geopolitical analysis by\u00a0Richard Medhurst<\/strong>\u00a0pertaining to the building of the\u00a0Ben Gurion Canal<\/strong>\u00a0linking the Eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba.<\/p>\n The Ben Gurion Canal Project was initially a \u201csecret\u201d (classified) U.S. project formulated in 1963 by the\u00a0Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0LLNG, a strategic think tank (focussing on nuclear radiation) on contract\u00a0with the\u00a0U.S Department of Energy<\/strong>. The LLNG project was formulated in response to the nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956 by President\u00a0Gamal Abdel Nasser<\/strong>\u00a0(1956-1970). Its intent was to bypass the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n According to the \u201cclassified\u201d document prepared by the LLNG (1963) quoted by\u00a0Business Insider<\/a>, July 2023, a strategic plan was envisaged:<\/p>\n \u201cto blast an alternative Suez Canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The plan consisted in\u00a0using 520 buried nuclear explosions\u00a0\u201cto help in the excavation process through the hills in the Negev Desert. The document was declassified in 1993\u201d. \u00a0I have not been able to consult the \u201cdeclassified\u201d LLNG document.<\/p>\n The declassified document is acknowledged in Richard Medhurst\u2019s video.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This U.S. plan, first negotiated with Israel in the 1960s is of utmost relevance to unfolding events in Palestine.<\/p>\n It\u2019s objective is to achieve\u00a0US-Israeli Maritime Dominance<\/a>\u00a0against the people of the Middle East. In the context of a broader US-led Middle East War, the Ben Gurion Canal Project is part of America\u2019s hegemonic military agenda. It is consistent with Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cPlan to Wipe Palestine Off the Map\u201d:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ben Gurion Canal<\/strong>\u00a0will give Israel in particular and other friendly nations the freedom from blackmail arising out of access to the Suez Canal.<\/strong><\/p>\n Arab states have been leveraging the Red Sea to pressure Israel and in response, Israel has decided to gain more control of the Red Sea. These African countries have cultural and economic affinities with the Arab states.\u00a0One of the main military benefits for Israel is that it gives Israel the strategic options as the Ben Gurion Canal will totally take away the importance of Suez for the US military if needed in the aid for Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n Israel aims to push Egypt further into a corner by eliminating Suez in the global trade and energy corridor<\/strong>\u00a0and becoming a global trade and energy logistics center.<\/p>\n Experts are of the opinion that this situation will shake the strategic-energy balance of China\u2019s Belt and Road Project initiative in the Mediterranean, along with the Strait of Hormuz, which is the transfer point of 30 percent of the world\u2019s energy. The Ben Gurion Canal would have the solid backing of the West. (Eurasia Review<\/a>, November 7, 2023, emphasis added)<\/p>\n President Biden is broadly supportive of the Israeli led genocide.\u00a0Visibly what is at stake is a U.S. hegemonic project which seeks the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland and the appropriation of all Palestinian lands.<\/p>\n According to Yvonne Ridley:<\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing stopping the newly-revised [Ben Gurion Canal] project from being revived and rubber-stamped is the presence of the Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0As far as Netanyahu is concerned they are standing in the way of the project<\/strong>\u201d (Yvonne Ridley<\/a>,\u00a0November 10, 2023, emphasis added)<\/p>\n While the project is contemplated by US-Israel as outlined by\u00a0Richard Medhurst,<\/strong>\u00a0the validity of the LLNG 1963 plan is doubtful to say the least.<\/p>\n What is revealed in Medhurst\u2019s video is\u00a0the U.S. military-intelligence strategy to use Israel as a \u201chub\u201d in the Middle East with a view to securing the hegemonic control over strategic international waterways.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In solidarity with the People of Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n Michel Chossudovsky,<\/strong>\u00a0Global Research, November 10, 2023<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n According the Richard Medhurst:<\/p>\n \u201cIt will begin at the port city of Eilat and finish\u00a0right next through, if not directly through, Gaza\u201d<\/p>\nGlobal Research Introduction<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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