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       Thanks to U.S. lawmakers, Israel’s polarizing leader gets to eclipse Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday afternoon will mark the fourth time he has been invited to deliver such an address, surpassing the wartime British prime minister whose bust once sat prominently in the White House.