IAF Commander Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Shkedy made a pointed comparison Thursday between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Shkedy, the son of a Holocaust survivor, hinted that Israel may have to "go it alone" against Iran, in a speech before a gathering of foreign military attachés military at the Masuah Institute for Holocaust studies. He said there that vis-à-vis Iran, Israel can "trust no one but itself."

'Subconscious Holocaust Story'
"Everyone has a personal and family Holocaust story. They are all more or less similar," Shkedy told Voice of Israel government radio after the speech. "Each of us has a story like that, which accompanies him everywhere. It is in your subconscious and in everything that you do."

"It is important to me that these things be understood and be well known," Shkedy said. "I am convinced that we have to look at reality with our eyes wide open," he told the radio station's military affairs correspondent, Carmela Menashe.

encouraged Israel to act on its own, too.

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