/tags/israel/ Recent content in israel on Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026/04/the-samson-option/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026/04/the-samson-option/ &ldquo;Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.&rdquo; ― General Moshe Dayan, Former IDF Chief Samson destroying the pillars of the Temple of Dagon ― Painting by Vittorio Bigari &ldquo;This is a deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a &ldquo;last resort&rdquo; against any country whose military has invaded and/or destroyed much of Israel. The name is a reference to the biblical Israelite judge Samson who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him.