(Washington Post) Scott Wilson - Jewish leaders urged President Obama on Thursday to make clear during his upcoming trip to Israel that he will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons - and to correct an early diplomatic misstep when he appeared to trace Israel's historic claim to a modern state to the Holocaust rather than to the Bible. Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, asked Obama what actions he intends to take to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. "I'm not going to beat my chest to prove my toughness on this," Obama said, according to participants. Obama continued with a quote attributed to the Chinese military tactician Sun Tzu, who suggested that a "golden bridge" must be built to give a "proud people" a face-saving retreat to a diplomatic solution.
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