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As a proud Jew and someone who stands firmly with the Jewish state, let me explain exactly why Scott Ritter's little "genius" suggestion to target Israel's desalination and salt-related facilities is not just morally depraved genocidal fantasy—it's also strategically idiotic and would backfire spectacularly. Israel isn't some fragile desert backwater that would collapse without a few water plants. We've turned chronic water scarcity into one of the world's greatest engineering and innovation success stories. Five massive desalination plants along the Mediterranean coast (Sorek, Ashkelon, Hadera, Palmachim, and others) now supply **over 70-85% of our household drinking water** and a huge chunk of total supply—including agriculture and industry. The cost per cubic meter has plummeted to around $0.50–0.60 thanks to Israeli tech breakthroughs in reverse osmosis and energy efficiency. If some regime or its proxies tried to hit those plants: - We'd have redundancy and rapid repair capability. These aren't isolated tin sheds; they're fortified, high-tech facilities with layered defenses. - We have massive water reserves, advanced recycling (already reusing ~90% of wastewater), and contingency systems built precisely because we've always lived under existential threat. - The blowback would be immediate and overwhelming. Any large-scale attack on critical civilian infrastructure (water = life) crosses every red line. It would trigger full-spectrum response—exactly the kind of disproportionate, decisive retaliation Ritter pretends to understand but clearly doesn't. Ritter's "salt processing plants" line is especially laughable. He's either confusing desalination brine/outflow with "salt plants" or deliberately mangling things for clicks. Israel's Dead Sea potash and minerals industry is valuable, but it's not the backbone of national survival—the way water is for literally every country in the region. Destroying Dead Sea evaporation ponds or related facilities wouldn't "end" Israel; it would mainly wreck Jordan's economy too (they share the sea and have joint projects), poison an already shrinking ecological wonder, and hand Israel yet another casus belli while changing almost nothing about our water security. This isn't clever strategy—it's the same tired genocidal rhetoric dressed up as tactics: "just eliminate the Jews and the problem disappears." We've heard versions of it for 75+ years. It never works because we build, adapt, defend, and strike back harder. Every time someone threatens to wipe us off the map or "end" us "right now," we get stronger, more innovative, and more resolved. So no, attacking our water infrastructure wouldn't finish Israel. It would finish any illusion of restraint, unite even more of the country (and many abroad), and remind the world why trying to destroy the one Jewish state in history is the single dumbest geopolitical move anyone can make. Am Yisrael Chai. We don't vanish because some has-been ex-officer on X cosplays as a military genius for anti-Israel clout. We endure. We thrive. And we defend what's ours.