Not too long after the Suez Crisis, the United States actually had suggested digging a canal across the Negev Desert in Israel as an alternative to the Suez Canal. ...Using over 500 nuclear bombs. Yes, this was actually real.
According to the memo, this was because of the exponential cost of digging a canal through normal means. In OTL, this project obviously failed to go through, for obvious reasons including further strained relations with Arab states and damaging long-term effects. But, for some reason, let's say that the American government goes through with this consideration and, for the sake of this scenario, has Israeli approval. How would this scenario play out? How different would the (political and physical) climate of Israel and the Red Sea change?
According to the memo, this was because of the exponential cost of digging a canal through normal means. In OTL, this project obviously failed to go through, for obvious reasons including further strained relations with Arab states and damaging long-term effects. But, for some reason, let's say that the American government goes through with this consideration and, for the sake of this scenario, has Israeli approval. How would this scenario play out? How different would the (political and physical) climate of Israel and the Red Sea change?