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<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8212; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed President Barack Obama a gift on Monday that spoke volumes about Israel&#8217;s tensions with Iran &#8212; an ancient Hebrew tome about a Persian plot to annihilate Jews.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called the Scroll of Esther, a tale of palace intrigue featuring a Jewish beauty who charms a Persian king into foiling an evil adviser&#8217;s genocidal plans for her people some 2,500 years ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;Then too, they wanted to wipe us out,&#8221; Netanyahu told Obama, according to an Israeli official.</p>
<p>Jewish faithful gather in synagogues on Wednesday to read the parchment text, popularly known as the Megillah, on the eve of the Jewish costume holiday of Purim, a celebration of salvation and of turning the tables on one&#8217;s foes.</p>
<p>&#8220;And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them,&#8221; one of the verses says.</p>
<p>Netanyahu, who has called Iran&#8217;s nuclear program a threat to the Jewish state&#8217;s existence, made a point of telling reporters after his White House meeting with the president that he had given the Megillah to Obama.</p>
<p>The Israeli leader, in a frosty meeting with Obama last May, lectured the president on Jewish history and criticized his approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>Netanyahu has also invoked the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed, in citing the dangers he says a nuclear-armed Iran &#8212; the modern-day Persia &#8212; would pose.</p>
<p>Obama appealed to Netanyahu at their White House meeting to give economic sanctions time to work, amid concern that Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East&#8217;s only nuclear power, could strike Iranian atomic sites.</p>
<p>Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes.</p>
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