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Thu 01 Jan 2007Rabbi accuses Ahmadinejad of 'trying to imitate Hitler'Israel:Israel's chief rabbi yesterday accused Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of "trying to imitate Hitler" and urged the international community to isolate him."I urge the heads of state of the whole world and the United Nations to do everything possible to stop the threat that Iran poses to my people and my country," rabbi Yona Metzger said at a conference with Vatican officials in Rome.