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Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Mark Stephen Shields
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