Once that entered the piece, it ceased to be just a biographical look at a great world leader, and it became a thriller, ... It explores so many human questions about violence or peace, and what (New Yorker writer) Seymour Hersh calls 'the Samson option,' because when Samson brought down the temple on the Philistines, he brought it down on himself -- it's Israel's feeling that if it goes down, it will not go down alone.
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