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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the 1991 book, see The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Samson Option According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and "bowed himself with all his might" (Judges 16:30, KJV). This has been variously ...
The "Samson Option" of the book's title refers to the nuclear strategy whereby Israel would launch a massive nuclear retaliatory strike if the state itself was being overrun, just as the Biblical figure Samson is said to have pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines ...
The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center as viewed from a Corona satellite in the late 1960s. The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center (Hebrew: קריה למחקר גרעיני – נגב ע"ש שמעון פרס, formerly the Negev Nuclear Research Center, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Dimona reactor) is an Israeli nuclear installation located in the Negev desert, about ...
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Samson Unit's roles are believed to have included: Intelligence collection in the battlespace on an ongoing basis, as means to continuously know the area, and as preparation for upcoming operations. Samson reportedly gathered intelligence for its and other units’ operations.
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Bedan (Hebrew: בְּדָן Bəḏān) is named as one of the deliverer of Israelites in 1 Samuel 12:11. [1]He is not mentioned elsewhere as a judge of Israel. [2] Bishop Simon Patrick and others (including the Talmud [3]) posit the name to be a contraction of ben Dan ("the son of Dan") by which they suppose Samson is meant, as the Targum reads. [4]
There is a lot of space between the biblical story of Samson, and using it as a metaphor for Israel's nuclear policy, meaning how does meaning start THERE, and end up being HERE. The temple Samson destroyed was not "the entire world" in metaphoric scope. It was "the" temple, and not all of the temples, building, civilizations, etc...