The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and its effects on Israel-American relations. 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 who
Omar (biblical figure) states. It is not clear that this name originates in the biblical name. The name Omar is also the English transliteration of the Arabic name of the Muslim leader Omar Ibn Khattab today written Umar. In Arabic it is pronounced with an opening glottal sound and is not of the biblical origin. Omar (biblical figure) Omar (, possibly meaning ""eloquent"" or ""gifted speaker"" in Hebrew, although it is a name in a different but close language) was the name of a man mentioned in the Bible, the ancestor of an Edomite clan, the son of Eliphaz (Esau's eldest son). Omar's