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Week of Jun 24, 2026

• Document IL Hadash — Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (DFPE) — party peace platform (from its program; English version via Adalah): a Jewish-Arab socialist Left; full Israeli withdrawal to the June 1967 lines, evacuation of all settlements, a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel (two states for two peoples), the Golan returned to Syria. [Party platform — fills the previously 0-doc Hadash entry.] platform
• Event SY Syrian rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh abducted in Douma other
• Event LY Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured; ICC-wanted heir held in Zintan figure imprisoned
• Event EG Muslim Brotherhood guide Badie arrested and sentenced to death figure imprisoned
• Event BH Bahrain jails rights defender Nabeel Rajab over tweets figure imprisoned
• Event SA Saudi agents murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi other
• Event PS Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot dead in Jenin other
• Event EG Egypt's best-known activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah jailed again figure imprisoned
• Event SA Saudi Arabia jails women's-rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul figure imprisoned
• Document IQ Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — statement, 2025 (per Kurdistan24, "Iraq Still Far from True Federalism"): "Baghdad's treatment of the Kurdistan Region does not align with the principles of federalism." [Second doc — distinct KRG-FEDERALISM / Kurdish-autonomy-rights axis, vs his election-day Iraqi-government-formation doc.] speech
• Document SA King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia — speech launching his interfaith-dialogue initiative, ~March 2008 (per AP): a call for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews, putting "the Quran, the Torah and the Bible" on common ground, with his senior clerics' backing. [Second doc — distinct INTERFAITH / religion-and-society axis, vs his Arab Peace Initiative doc.] speech
• Document MA King Hassan II of Morocco — from his memoir "The Challenge" (1978): his conception of the SACRED MONARCHY — the king as Commander of the Faithful whose duties are "even greater and more demanding," who "must do everything but abdicate." [Second doc — distinct MONARCHY / religion-and-state / regime-legitimacy axis, vs his Green March / Western-Sahara doc.] article
• Document IL Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; then Culture & Sport Minister) — official statement, 21 Oct 2018, on her "Culture Loyalty" bill: "preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel" — conditioning state arts funding on loyalty to the state. [Second doc — distinct CULTURE-WAR / free-expression / loyalty-in-culture axis, vs her existing Mizrahi periphery-populism doc.] press-release
• Event IQ Halbousi becomes Iraq's leading Sunni as parliament speaker other
• Event IQ Federal court ousts Halbousi as parliament speaker other
• Event SA King Abdullah grants Saudi women the municipal vote other
• Event TN Ghannouchi founds the movement that becomes Ennahda party formed
• Event LB Billionaire Mikati becomes PM amid Lebanon's collapse other
• Document SA Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — statement during his Tehran visit, ~17 Jun 2023 (post-rapprochement; per Gulf Research Center): Saudi–Iran cooperation on regional security, maritime-navigation security, and a region free of weapons of mass destruction. [Second doc — distinct SAUDI–IRAN DÉTENTE / regional-de-escalation axis, vs his existing Israel-normalization-conditionality doc.] speech
• Event MA Hassan II survives a coup and entrenches the "Years of Lead" other
• Event TN Essebsi wins Tunisia's first free presidential election leader changed
• Event DZ Boumediene seizes power in Algeria's 1965 coup leader changed
• Event MA Hassan II launches the Green March into Western Sahara other
• Event SA King Faisal wields the oil weapon in the 1973 embargo other
• Event SA King Faisal assassinated by his nephew leader killed
• Event KW Kuwait's emir dissolves parliament and suspends the constitution other
• Document IL Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; Zionist-left) — 2022 campaign-launch remarks, 20 Sep 2022: "Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it" — the Zionist-left's two-state / end-the-conflict stance. [Second doc — distinct TWO-STATE / peace foreign-policy axis, vs her existing liberal-Zionism / pro-democracy doc.] speech
• Document LB Samir Geagea (leader, Lebanese Forces) — statement, ~26 Apr 2025: "We cannot build a real state without the state's monopoly on arms" — his demand that Hezbollah disarm and that the state hold the sole monopoly on weapons. [Second doc — distinct STATE-MONOPOLY-ON-ARMS / Hezbollah-disarmament / sovereignty axis, vs his existing decentralization-and-democracy doc.] speech
• Document IL Avigdor Lieberman (leader of Yisrael Beiteinu; secular-nationalist) — coalition-crisis statements, 27 May 2019: "We are in favor of a Jewish state, we are against a halachic state" — his anti-ultra-Orthodox-coercion / Haredi-draft-equality stand that forced Israel's first-ever repeat election. [Second doc — distinct SECULARISM / religion-state axis, vs his 2010 UN foreign-policy address.] speech
• Document EG Gamal Abdel Nasser — Speech to the Officers' Club, Cairo, 25 April 1959 (UAR period): pan-Arab unity ("The independence of all Arab countries is a closely knit entity") and POSITIVE NEUTRALITY / non-alignment ("we shall not… accept the role of a satellite"; "non-alignment to either East or West"). [Third doc — distinct PAN-ARABISM + NON-ALIGNMENT axes, vs the existing Suez/anti-imperialism and Arab-socialism docs.] speech
• Document LY Muammar Gaddafi — The Green Book, Part Three: "The Social Basis of the Third Universal Theory" (c. 1979): nationalism as the dynamic force of history; the nation as the political "umbrella" superseding tribalism; the declared equality of man and woman. [Third pillar — distinct SOCIAL / national-identity axis, vs the existing Part One (political) and Part Two (economic) docs.] manifesto
• Document IQ Nouri al-Maliki (twice PM of Iraq; State of Law / Dawa; Coordination Framework's PM candidate) — post on X, 28 Jan 2026, after Trump threatened to cut US support over his comeback: "We categorically reject the blatant American interference in Iraq's internal affairs… a violation of sovereignty." The Iraqi sovereigntist / anti-US-interference pole. [Second doc — distinct sovereignty axis; an evolution from his 2006 US-Congress address.] social-post
• Document MA Aziz Akhannouch (Head of Government / PM of Morocco; RNI leader) — statement (Morocco World News, 18 Apr 2026) on the "social state" agenda: "The executive has never approached social dialogue as a circumstantial commitment, but as a clear political choice." The Moroccan social-state / development-model pole. [Second doc — distinct domestic social-policy axis, vs his Western-Sahara UNGA doc.] speech
• Bill TN Code of Personal Status (Majalla) law
• Document BH Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Crown Prince & PM of Bahrain) — Bahrain's statement at the inaugural GCC–ASEAN–China Summit, Kuala Lumpur, 27 May 2025 (his official website): positioning Bahrain in a Gulf–Asia multilateral partnership built on trade, maritime security, and "the values of dialogue, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence." [Second doc — distinct multilateral-partnership / coexistence axis, vs his Gaza-war doc.] speech
• Bill EG 2007 Constitutional Amendments (Articles 5, 88, 179) constitutional amendment
• Bill TN 2002 Constitutional Referendum (abolition of presidential term limits) referendum
• Document IQ Masrour Barzani (KRG Prime Minister; senior KDP leader) — interview with the Kurdish magazine Gulan (via KDP, ~2017, ahead of the independence referendum): asserting the Kurdish right to self-determination and a NEGOTIATED, peaceful separation from Iraq — "it is time to separate peacefully and become two strong allies." [Second doc — distinct Kurdish self-determination / independence axis.] interview
• Document EG Gamal Abdel Nasser — National Charter (الميثاق, 1962), his foundational Arab-socialism program: public ownership over "exploitive private capital," but a distinctively non-Marxist socialism — "We do not believe in the necessity of class struggle." [Second doc — distinct Arab-socialism / ECONOMIC axis, vs his Suez anti-imperialism doc.] charter
• Document LY Muammar Gaddafi — The Green Book, Part Two: "The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism" (1977): his anti-wage-labour economic theory — "Wage-earners are but slaves to the masters who hire them" — and the "Third Universal Theory" call to transform "societies of wage-earners into those of partners." [Second doc — distinct ECONOMIC axis, vs his Part One political-theory doc.] manifesto
• Document IL Benny Gantz (ex-IDF chief; National Unity leader; centrist challenger) — resigning from Israel's wartime emergency government, 9 Jun 2024 (Times of Israel): "Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory… we are leaving the emergency government today," and demanding elections: "I call on Netanyahu: Set an agreed election date." [Second doc — distinct domestic-governance / anti-Netanyahu axis.] speech
• Document QA Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (Qatar's PM & Foreign Minister) — Council on Foreign Relations conversation, 29 Oct 2025: Qatar's mediation doctrine — "number one is trust… that we have built through friendships around the world" and proposing "solutions that's adoptable by both parties." The Qatari mediation / dialogue-diplomacy pole. [Second doc — distinct mediation-doctrine axis.] interview
• Document LB Joseph Aoun (President of Lebanon from Jan 2025; former army commander) — inaugural address, 9 Jan 2025 (L'Orient Today): making the state's monopoly on arms the centerpiece — "the state's right to hold a monopoly on weapons, and to invest in the army" — alongside a rule-of-law / anti-corruption vision ("no more mafias… no more immunity for criminals and the corrupt"). The reformist / state-sovereignty pole. speech
• Document LB Nawaf Salam (Prime Minister of Lebanon from Feb 2025; former ICJ president) — Euronews interview, 4 Feb 2026: the state's monopoly on arms and restoring state authority — "the army is our main tool to enforce our goal to have the monopoly over arms and to restore state authority over all the Lebanese territory" — plus condemning Israel's occupation of the south. The reformist / state-sovereignty pole. interview
• Document IL Yair Golan (then IDF Deputy Chief of Staff; later a Labor/Democrats leader) — 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day address (per Times of Israel): warning that trends in Israel echo pre-Holocaust Europe — "finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016" — and of the ease of becoming "callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical." [Second doc — distinct moral-character / democratic-warning axis.] speech
• Document IL Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — Haaretz opinion piece (per Ahram Online, 23 Jun 2026), among the harshest condemnations of the Gaza war by any senior Israeli figure: "It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes," calling the war the work of "the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu." [Second doc — distinct war-conduct axis.] op-ed
• Document IL Yuli Edelstein (Likud MK; ex-chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; ex-Soviet "Prisoner of Zion") — statement (Times of Israel, 11 Mar 2026) after the Haredi draft-exemption bill was shelved: vowing to "widen the IDF's recruitment base until we pass a real, historic enlistment law… and lighten the burden on people who show up to serve." The draft-equality / equal-burden pole on the security-right. press-release
• Document LY Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Muammar Gaddafi's son & one-time heir; d. Feb 2026) — his 20 Feb 2011 televised address during the uprising (per Al-Monitor): warning that toppling the regime would fragment Libya — "All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country… everyone will want to be president, or emir." The Gaddafi-restorationist / strong-central-authority pole. speech
• Document JO وائل السقا (الأمين العام لحزب جبهة العمل الإسلامي الأردني / الذراع السياسي للإخوان) — مؤتمر صحفي 23 أبريل 2025 (رؤيا) بعد حظر الحكومة لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين: الحزب مستقل وملتزم بالدستور والقانون الأردني وقرار الحظر "لا يعنيه". قطب المعارضة الإسلامية الموالية للنظام الدستوري. speech
• Document IL Israel Katz (Israel's Defense Minister; senior Likud) — statement at the re-established Sa-Nur settlement, 30 May 2025 (Times of Israel), rebuking Macron's Palestinian-state recognition: "They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper — and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground… thrown in the trash can of history," announcing 21 new West Bank settlements. The mainstream secular-nationalist Likud right. speech
• Document PS حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين — من حوار أمينها العام زياد النخالة (عربي21، 2 أغسطس 2021، ومنشور على الموقع الرسمي للحركة jehad.ps): رفض التسوية مع الاحتلال وبرنامج منظمة التحرير، وأن إقامة دولة فلسطينية لا تتم إلا عبر المقاومة وتغيير موازين القوى. القطب الرافض الإسلامي المقاوم. [موقف سياسي-أيديولوجي معلن؛ المحتوى العملياتي مستبعَد.] interview
• Document IL Amir Ohana (Likud; Knesset Speaker; Israel's first openly gay Speaker; ex-Justice & Public-Security Minister) — inaugural address as Speaker (per Times of Israel, 29 Dec 2022): as a gay man leading a right-religious coalition with anti-LGBT partners, vowing "This Knesset, under the leadership of this speaker, won't hurt them or any other family, period." The gay-right / nationalist-LGBT paradox pole. speech
• Document IL Nir Barkat (Israel's Economy Minister; ex-Jerusalem mayor; tech entrepreneur; Likud) — European Parliament address on import reforms (per JNS, Mar 2025): free-market liberalization to cut the cost of living ("What is good for Europe is good for Israel") and an "economic peace" vision ("Palestinians should decide: Do they want the West Bank to become Dubai, or another Gaza?"). The economic-liberal / free-market Likud pole. speech
• Bill IL 2021–2022 State Budget (first state budget in three and a half years) law
• Bill LB Parliamentary Elections Law No. 44 of 2017 (proportional representation) law
• Bill IL "Deri Law" — Amendment to Basic Law: The Government (minister with a suspended sentence) constitutional amendment
• Bill IL Shabbat "Minimarket Law" (Amendment to the Business Licensing Law) law
• Bill IL "Chametz Law" — Amendment authorizing hospitals to bar leavened bread on Passover law
• Bill MA Organic Law 97.15 on the Exercise of the Right to Strike law
• Bill MA Press and Publications Code (Law 88.13) law