In Samson and Delilah, the Hollywood classic created before the purge of all the progressives during the McCarthy era, Sampson –like Orpheus, another mythical character — revelled in carnal pleasures was ultimately betrayed by his beloved the beautiful queen. Blinded by the kings’ men he brought the entire Temple down through his brute strength killing the king, his subjects and dying beneath Temple’s rubble.

In his incisive book “I’ll burn the bridge when I reach there,” Norman Finkelstein fuses the figures of Sampson and Cassandra, a Trojan princess, who spurned the advances of Apollo and cursed by him, she lost the power of convincing people to believe in her true prophecies. Akin to Cassandra, he writes, a woman, an inmate of concentration camp predicted the slaughter of all Jews, but no one believed her. Her prophesy finally came true. Finkelstein prophesies, “Israel being a crazy state is pursuing the Samson’s option”.

It seems Finkelstein’s observation was not far from truth. By attacking Iran, Israel may have cracked open the doors for Sampson’s option. After successive triumphs — from Iraq to Libya to Syria — the US proxy in the Middle East has decided to destroy the last bulwark of resistance, Iran, with the help of its mentor and willing collaborator, the US.

As if the genocide perpetrating by it in the occupied Palestine was not enough the imperialist alliance deceived Iran by engaging it in a dialogue. Before the farce could proceed further, Israel was given the green signal to attack Iran. Emboldened by the outcome of the1967 war, Israel attacked Iran inflicting serious damage to its war machine, killing its nuclear scientists, nearly 80 civilians and inflicting some damage to its nuclear infrastructure in Nantz.

But to its dismay it was neither 1967, nor its opponents were the Arab leaders. Nasser and Hafizul Assad were ensnared by the US assurances of Israeli non-aggression—only to be betrayed in a classic act of US-Israeli duplicity. The ‘pre-emptive’ strike by the US proxy destroyed Egyptian and Syrian airpower. It was the death knell for Arab nationalism. They not only lost Gaza........

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