So, Samson Wasn't the Prototype Suicide Bomber

If Samson was really a "Philistine", then we can't blame the Arabs for providing us with the "suicide bomber", right?

As Jonathan Tobin writes:

In a new production of Camille Saint-Saens’s biblical set piece “Samson et Dalila” at the Flanders Opera in Antwerp, Belgium, the Philistines oppressing the Hebrews were portrayed as Israelis and the Hebrews as the Palestinians. This requires the audience (which, unlike an audience in say, New York, probably understands the language in which the piece is sung) to believe that when Samson rallies the Jews to overthrow their Philistine oppressors, “Israel romps ta chaine” — Israel break your chains — he doesn’t really mean “Israel” but Palestine.