Talk:Samson Option

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2405:6E00:630:DED2:795B:EC0A:CA11:F601 (talk) 08:10, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: The quotes in the last two references in the footnote, at least, do not explicitly support that "The militant's death is often compared to Samson's". Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 14:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

I have removed that part now. A better explanation of that would be too long for a footnote about the artwork, so I have simplified the footnote to focus on the artwork. 2405:6E00:630:DED2:795B:EC0A:CA11:F601 (talk) 07:53, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

When the Lehi militant group were discussing ways to assassinate General Evelyn Barker, the British Army commander in Mandatory Palestine, a young woman volunteered to do the assassination as a suicide bombing.^[1][2][3] She said "Let my soul die with the Philistines [he]" as a reference to the Samson story in the Hebrew Bible.^[1][2][3] Other members of the group rejected her offer.^[1][3][2]

|2= 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.^[4][5]

Professor Yoav Rinon [he] – head of the department of comparative literature of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – described the story of Samson, and the attitudes it reflects, as "rooted in the Israeli ethos", alongside the Masada myth.^[6][7] Rinon criticized the "destructive wish for revenge followed by suicide" in Samson's story and the ideology Samson represents, quoting Samson's words "Let me die with the Philistines" that precede his "heroic suicide" in the biblical story.^[6][8]

When the Lehi militant group were discussing ways to assassinate General Evelyn Barker, the British Army commander in Mandatory Palestine, a young woman volunteered to do the assassination as a suicide bombing.^[1][2][3] She said "Let my soul die with the Philistines [he]" as a reference to the Samson story in the Hebrew Bible.^[1][2][3] Other members of the group rejected her offer.^[1][3][2]

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2405:6E00:630:2539:B03B:7E56:4288:D846 (talk) 14:07, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Same range, multiple requests Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 16:07, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, this was a revised version of the request from 18 October 2025 that got rejected about 4 hours later. Previously I put the main messages of the article in my own words, the rejection said that was "somewhat vague" and "the portion you quoted does not support the claim", so here I used short quotes of the author's exact words. The rejection above also said "views should be attributed to its author" so I fixed that and linked the author's Wikipedia page instead of the newspaper. 2405:6E00:630:1BAB:F3F9:C96E:D7CC:BB93 (talk) 02:19, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: Cultural references to Samson do not seem relevant to the background of the deterrence strategy. In my view, the professor's opinion belongs in the "Authors' opinions" section rather than the "Background" section, if at all. Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 14:36, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Should the letter "O" of "option" be capitalized or not? Iljhgtn (they/them · talk) 15:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)