M i g h t y S a m s o n 7 Foreword This play coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Nakbah. People are still talking as if the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis only started 60 years ago. In fact, the conflict dates back to 1122 BC when Palestine was ruled by no one else but the Palestinians themselves. The Israelites were subjects under the Philistines/Palestinians at the time. I wrote this play, Mighty Samson, to highlight this point. I extracted the story and the historical details from the Bible itself.[1] In the West in general, the word ‘philistine’ has been used for centuries to refer to an uncultured and barbaric person. In English, the word is used as a derogatory term. This stands in clear contradiction to 1- Bible, Old Testament, Judges 13-16, 1 Samuel 4-6, 1 Samuel 9-31.
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