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Zushy
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Come on guys.

Churchill was responsible for saving much of the world. If not for him Englnad would have surrendered and who knows what would have happened.

I still remember one of the chochuve morei hoira’ah in London saying a few words when the british marked fifty years since WWII.

Whether he was an antisemite has long been debated – although everyone agrees that his foreign minister [anthony Eden] and his succesor [Clement Atlee] were. However even if he was wwe still owe him a huge debt of hakoras hatoiv.

Mandela undoubtedly acheived something – but on a much smaller scale. People outside S/a have little to do with his acheivements. we do not deny what he did, and at least i personally respect him for it, but we also remember that he gave legitimicy to Arafat, and was one of the first world leaders to do so.