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LB 29 
EG 24 
IQ 19 
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MA 13 
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SD 12 
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DZ 8 
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Yitzhak Goldknopf (chairman, United Torah Judaism) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling conditioning Haredi state benefits on military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
החלטה שדגל שחור מתנוסס מעליה. זו חציית קו אדום חמורה ופגיעה ישירה בלב הזהות היהודית של מדינת ישראל
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Aryeh Deri (chairman, Shas) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling conditioning Haredi state benefits on military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
החלטת בג"ץ האחרונה, מהווה פגיעה אנושה וחמורה ביותר ביסודות הקיום של עם ישראל בארץ ישראל
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Moshe Gafni (chairman, Degel HaTorah / United Torah Judaism) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling (per Justice Sohlberg) that conditioned a series of Haredi state benefits on regularizing military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
מדינת ישראל הולכת ומאבדת את זהותה כמדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית. בג"ץ פועל בעקביות ובשיטתיות כדי לפגוע בלומדי התורה ולצמצם את מקומם במדינה
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Manifesto Arabic JO 2026-04-22 النظام الأساسي — المادة الثالثة: أهداف الحزب (Basic Statute of the Islamic Action Front, Art. 3 — now 'Hizb al-Umma')
المادة الثالثة: أهداف الحزب وغاياته: انطلاقا من التزام الحزب بأحكام الإسلام والدستور الأردني وقانون الاحزاب السياسية فإنه يسعى الى تحقيق الأهداف التالية: أ. الأهداف العامة: 1. الحفاظ على الهوية الحضارية العربية الإسلامية للمجتمع الأردني، وتعزيز منظومة القيم الإسلامية. 3. الإسهام في تهيئة المجتمع والأمة للتصدي للمشاريع…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 2026-04-01 הדמוקרטים — תוכנית הנקודות לסדר היום הרעיוני (The Democrats — Points Program / statement of core principles, April 2026)
בימים אלה של סערה, אובדן האמון במערכות השלטוניות וחוסר ודאות כללי, כאשר החברה הישראלית חווה פילוג, שחיתות שלטונית חסרת תקדים והיעדר חזון לאומי – אנחנו, הדמוקרטים, מציבים מצפן ברור: ביטחון, שוויון, צדק ושותפות אזרחית. … מסמך זה מתאר את עקרונות הליבה ותפיסת העולם של הדמוקרטים … חמש אבני יסוד לתפיסת הביטחון והמדיניות של…
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Arabic MR 2025-12-25 Tier 1 النظام الأساسي لحزب الإنصاف (El Insaf Party statute) — الديباجة + المبادئ والأهداف
الديباجة: إيمانا بالله الواحد الأحد، وتمسكا بقيم الإسلام العظيمة وثوابته الراسخة، وخدمة للشعب الموريتاني، يتم تأسيس حزب سياسي يدعى "حزب الإنصاف" قوامه الوحدة والتنمية والعدل. المبادئ (المادة 4): التمسك بالإسلام دينا وأساسا متينا للوحدة الوطنية ومصدرا وحيدا للتشريع وذلك بوصفه دين التقدم والوسطية والتسامح والاعتدال؛…
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Manifesto Arabic MR 2025-12-25 النظام الأساسي لحزب الإنصاف (El Insaf Party statute / basic law) — الديباجة + المبادئ والأهداف
الديباجة: إيمانا بالله الواحد الأحد واتكالا عليه، وتمسكا بقيم الإسلام العظيمة وثوابته الراسخة، وخدمة للشعب الموريتاني، وطبقا للدستور والقوانين والنظم المعمول بها في الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية، وطبقا لهذا النظام الأساسي ، قرر الأعضاء المؤتمرون وعيا منهم بضرورة المشاركة الإيجابية في الحياة السياسية وتسيير الشأن…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2025-12-17 ישר! עם איזנקוט — מטרות המפלגה (Yashar! With Eisenkot — Party Goals)
עקרונות המפלגה מבוססים על חקר האמת, שיקום החברה הישראלית לאחר המלחמה, וחיזוק המדינה לטווח הארוך. להבטיח את קיומה של מדינת ישראל כבית הלאומי של העם היהודי נבנה מחדש את ישראל כמדינה יהודית, דמוקרטית, עוצמתית, מתקדמת וצודקת – ברוח מגילת העצמאות. לאחד ולרפא את ישראל נשקם את ישראל אחרי ה-7 באוקטובר ואחרי שנתיים של מלחמה.…
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Interview English LB 2025-10-08 Samir Geagea (Lebanese Forces) to AFP: Hezbollah must disarm and hand its weapons to the Lebanese state (8 October 2025)
In an interview with Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said that the Iran-backed Hezbollah […] must learn from Hamas's experience in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state as soon as possible. Geagea stated that Hezbollah has run out of options, noting that the party…
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Party platform Arabic IQ 2025-10-01 Tier 1 البرنامج الانتخابي لائتلاف دولة القانون — الثوابت السياسية والمرتكزات الوطنية
استمد الائتلاف اسمه من الدولة والقانون، لإيمانه بمشروع الدولة وأهمية بناء دولة دستورية وقانونية ذات سيادة كاملة، تعمل على ترسيخ ثقافة المشاركة السياسية واحترام خيارات الشعب العراقي بمختلف مكوناته، على مبدأ المواطنة والمساواة القانونية. السيادة الفكرية والسياسية: إن آراء الائتلاف تنبع من وعي وطني حر، وليس خاضعاً لوصاية…
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Speech Arabic AE 2025-09-27 Tier 2 UAE statement to the 80th UN General Assembly, delivered by Minister of State Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, 27 Sep 2025 (English; UAE institutional position under MBZ)
Madam President, Today, the world is marked by turmoil, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Threats to state sovereignty, proliferation risks and extremist ideologies persist, undermining the foundations of stability and development. Amidst these challenges, my country has chosen the path of prudence and…
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Speech Arabic OM 2025-09-27 Tier 2 Sultanate of Oman statement to the 80th UN General Assembly, 27 Sep 2025 (English translation of Arabic original)
President of the 80th Session of the General Assembly, The international community today is confronted with a broad spectrum of critical issues that weigh heavily on the conscience of humanity and require genuine cooperation and collective responsibility to address them effectively. However, there remains another…
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Speech English IL 2025-09-26 PM Benjamin Netanyahu address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 26 Sep 2025 — two years into the Gaza war
Mr. President, the families of our dear hostages languishing in the dungeons of Gaza, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last year, I stood at this podium, and I showed this map. It shows the curse of Iran's terror axis. This axis threatened the peace of the entire world. It threatened the stability of our region and the very…
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Speech Arabic BH 2025-09-26 Tier 2 Kingdom of Bahrain statement to the 80th UN General Assembly, 26 Sep 2025 (English translation of Arabic original) — first Bahraini UN row, under leadership of King Hamad
Madam President, This 80th Session of the General Assembly is convened with the world facing accelerating transformations and complex challenges, including geopolitical tensions, armed conflicts, climate change, and major political and economic crises. The Kingdom of Bahrain, under the leadership of His Majesty King…
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Speech English IL 2025-09-26 Tier 1 Netanyahu — 80th UNGA Statement, 26 September 2025 — "Operation Rising Lion" 12-day Iran war, named-dead-leaders list, Israel-Sharaa Syria negotiations, "Make Iran Great Again"
Mr. President, The families of our dear hostages languishing in the dungeons of Gaza, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last year, I stood at this podium, and I showed this map. It shows the curse of Iran's terror axis. This axis threatened the peace of the entire world. It threatened the stability of our region and the very…
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Speech Arabic PS 2025-09-25 Tier 1 Mahmoud Abbas — 80th UNGA Statement, 25 September 2025 — Hamas rejection, Trump-Saudi-France peace plan endorsement, 9-point ceasefire framework
H. E. Annalena Baerbock, President of the General Assembly, H.E. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, distinguished Heads of State and delegations, Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you, I speak to you today after nearly two years in which our Palestinian people in the…
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Speech Arabic SY 2025-09-24 Tier 2 President Ahmad al-Sharaa address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2025 — first Syrian president at UN in nearly 60 years (English translation of Arabic original)
In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, The Syrian story is one that stirs emotions, where pain is mingled with hope. It is a story of a struggle between good and evil, between the weak and strong, in which there is support by none other than God or powerful falsehood, possessing all…
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Article English IL 2025-09-24 Benny Gantz — “What the World Gets Wrong About Israel” (New York Times op-ed), 24 September 2025
Since Oct. 7, 2023, from my position both in Israel's war cabinet and in the opposition, I have watched how some in the West have misinterpreted Israel's actions in prosecuting its war against Hamas. For Israelis, that day was not another round in a yearslong conflict. It was a strategic rupture — and a reminder of…
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Speech Arabic QA 2025-09-23 Tier 2 Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2025 — after the 9 Sep 2025 Israeli strike on Doha targeting the Hamas negotiating delegation (English translation of Arabic original)
Your Excellency, President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Honorable Audience, May the peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you, The United Nations was established eight decades ago on a set of rules and principles reached by humanity after two world wars.…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2025-09-23 Iraq — Statement at the 80th UN General Assembly General Debate (23 Sep 2025, Pres Abdullatif Jamal Rashid)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بداية أتقدم للسيدة انالينا بيربوك (Annalena Baerbock) بخالص التهنئة لرئاستها الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة في دورتها الثمانين [… …] أتشرف بأن أقف اليوم امام جمعكم الكريم متحدثا باسم العراق، بتاريخه العريق الذي تعرفونه جميعا، وبالتحديات الكبيرة التي واجهها وانتصر عليها، وبالآمال والتطلعات…
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Speech English JO 2025-09-23 Tier 2 King Abdullah II address to the 80th UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2025
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Madam President, Mr. Secretary General, Your Excellencies: Another year, another UN General Assembly, and another occasion when I stand before you to address the same issue: the conflict in the Middle East. Our UN General Assembly was born 80 years ago, pledging…
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Speech Arabic LB 2025-08-31 Nabih Berri — speech on the anniversary of Imam Musa al-Sadr's disappearance: the resistance's weapons "under the roof of the constitution", 31 August 2025 (English translation of Arabic)
We are open to discuss the fate of the weapons of the resistance, which is our pride and honour, under the roof of the constitution. [...] We reiterate that we are open to discussing the fate of those weapons … in a calm and consensual dialogue. [...] What is proposed in the American paper goes beyond the principle…
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Speech Arabic MA 2025-07-29 Tier 2 King Mohammed VI Throne Day Speech, 29 Jul 2025 — 26th anniversary of accession (Tetouan; English translation of Arabic original)
Dear Citizens, Throne Day celebrations provide an annual opportunity to renew the bonds of mutual allegiance and the feelings of affection and loyalty which have invariably united us, and which grow stronger as time goes by. Since my accession to the throne, I have worked to build an advanced, unified and…
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Article English IL 2025-06-13 June 2025 Israel–Iran war (the “12-Day War”; Operation Rising Lion)
On 13 June 2025, Israel launched a large-scale air campaign ("Operation Rising Lion") against Iran, striking nuclear facilities including Natanz, ballistic-missile infrastructure, and senior military commanders; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was aimed at rolling back Iran's nuclear-weapons…
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Speech Arabic LB 2025-04-18 Naim Qassem — address on Lebanon's defense strategy and the Resistance's weapons, 18 April 2025 (Hezbollah-official English translation)
Yes, the constitution says arms should be exclusively in the hands of the state—and we agree. But which arms are we talking about? The weapons that maintain public order, the arms of internal security forces. As for the Resistance's weapons, they are exclusively for confronting the "Israeli" enemy. They are not—and…
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Interview English LB 2025-04-03 Walid Jumblatt — interview with The National, 3 April 2025 (with a Middle East Eye supplement, 20 May 2025)
(On Hezbollah's weapons and armed resistance, Jumblatt told The National:) "Hezbollah should understand that now, going back to the old methods … armed resistance – it won't work." (Yet he insisted the party cannot be excluded from Lebanon's confessional order:) "Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese society. They are…
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Speech English LB 2025-03-31 Gebran Bassil — lecture in Hungary, “Which Role for the Christians in shaping the Future of the Middle East?”, 31 March 2025 (FPM-official English text)
We, the Free Patriotic Movement, have tried to reflect the concerns of our community, whilst working on the consolidation of the Lebanese institutions. We have always believed that our political efficiency hinges on our independence and autonomy, in contrast with other Lebanese political parties beholden to foreign…
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Speech English YE 2025-03-28 Tier 1 Abdul-Malik al-Houthi — Al-Quds Platform (Quds Day) speech, 28 March 2025 (SABA English translation)
I extend my greetings to the oppressed Palestinian people, to those steadfast at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to the mujahidin in Gaza and the West Bank. We remember the martyr Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the leader Ismail Haniyeh, and the former Iranian president martyr Ibrahim Raisi, who stood out as a role model…
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Press release Arabic SY 2025-03-13 Constitutional Declaration of the Syrian Arab Republic (13 March 2025) — the HTS-led transitional government's foundational instrument
Article 1 The Syrian Arab Republic is an independent, fully sovereign state. It is an indivisible geographical and political unit, and no part of it may be relinquished. Article 2 The state establishes a political system based on the principle of separation of powers, and guarantees freedom and dignity for the…
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Speech Arabic SY 2025-01-30 Ahmad al-Sharaa's Address to the Syrian Nation, 30 Jan 2025 (HTS leader's first programmatic address; English translation of Arabic original)
I address you today not as a ruler but as a servant for our wounded homeland, striving with all power and will I have been given to realise Syria's unity and renaissance, as we should all understand that this is a transitional stage, and it is part of a political process that requires true participation by all Syrian…
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Article English SY 2025-01-29 Ahmad al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president (29 Jan 2025)
On 29 January 2025, Ahmad al-Sharaa was named president of Syria for the transitional period at a conference of the factions that had toppled Bashar al-Assad. He had become the country's de facto leader on 8 December 2024 after the fall of Damascus and was the founder and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which…
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Article English PS 2025-01-19 Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal takes effect (19 Jan 2025)
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian factions in Gaza took effect on 19 January 2025, structured in three 42-day phases and mediated by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar. In the first phase Hamas was to release 33 Israeli hostages while Israel released roughly 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, allowed a…
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Article English LB 2025-01-13 Nawaf Salam named Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon (13 Jan 2025)
On 13 January 2025, Nawaf Salam was nominated by 84 of Lebanon's 128 members of parliament, making him prime minister-designate days after Joseph Aoun's election as president. Salam was at the time president of the International Court of Justice, a post he resigned on 14 January 2025 to take up the role. He went on to…
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Speech Arabic OM 2025-01-11 Sultan Haitham bin Tariq — Address to the Nation on Accession Day (5th anniversary of the Renewed Renaissance), 11 January 2025 (official English translation of Arabic)
In the name of Allah, the Almighty, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. […] Dear citizens, […] It gives us pleasure to celebrate with you, on this glorious day, the numerous accomplishments that have been made in our beloved country during the past five years of our Renewed Renaissance […]. Security and safety are…
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Article English LB 2025-01-09 Joseph Aoun elected President of Lebanon, ending a two-year vacancy (9 Jan 2025)
On 9 January 2025 Lebanon's parliament elected army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a roughly two-year vacancy in the post. He secured 99 of 128 votes as a consensus candidate backed by US, French, and Saudi diplomacy. In his inaugural address he pledged to assert the state's monopoly on arms and to pursue…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2025-01-01 המצע שלנו — ישראל ביתנו (Yisrael Beiteinu party platform)
אנו דוגלים בתפיסה היהודית כפי שהיא מתוארת בספרו של חוזה המדינה, בנימין זאב הרצל 'מדינת היהודים'. חשיבותה של מסורת ישראל וערכי היהדות הם חלק אינטגרלי מהחברה וממדינת ישראל, ואנו מכבדים את זכותו של כל אדם לחיות על פי אמונותיו. אך אין לאף אדם את האפשרות להיות מונופול על היהדות. אנו מתנגדים לכפייה דתית מכל סוג שהיא,…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2025-01-01 عن حزب مستقبل وطن — من نحن / مبادئ الحزب / الرؤية والبرنامج السياسي (Mostaqbal Watan official About — principles & political vision)
من نحن حزب مستقبل وطن هو حزب سياسي وطني مصري تأسس عام 2014 بهدف دعم الدولة المصرية وبناء مستقبل أفضل لجميع المواطنين. يعمل الحزب على تمكين الشباب، وتعزيز العدالة الاجتماعية، والمشاركة الفاعلة في الحياة السياسية من خلال كوادر مؤهلة ومبادرات تنموية تشمل مختلف محافظات الجمهورية. ينطلق الحزب من رؤية وطنية تستند إلى قيم…
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Article English SY 2024-12-08 Fall of the Assad regime — opposition forces take Damascus; Bashar al-Assad flees to Russia (8 December 2024)
On 8 December 2024, opposition forces led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Damascus, ending more than five decades of Assad-family rule in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, and the Russian foreign ministry confirmed he had left after resigning; he was granted asylum in Russia. The offensive had…
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Speech Arabic SY 2024-12-08 Tier 2 Ahmad al-Sharaa Umayyad Mosque victory speech, Damascus, 8 Dec 2024 (mosaic of sourced verbatim quotes; English translation of Arabic original)
Speaker: Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammad al-Julani). Location: Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. Occasion: HTS-led takeover of Damascus and fall of the Assad regime. The speech was delivered in Arabic. No publicly available single durable English transcript exists; the following are sourced verbatim segments…
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Article English LB 2024-11-27 Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, ending the 2024 war (27 Nov 2024)
A US-brokered cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah took effect at 04:00 local time on 27 November 2024, ending more than a year of cross-border fighting that had escalated into open war. The agreement set a 60-day initial period during which Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon and…
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Press release Arabic JO 2024-10-18 Islamic Action Front — statement endorsing the 18 October 2024 Dead Sea cross-border attack on Israeli forces (DAWN English translation of the Arabic communiqué)
The Islamic Action Front Party blesses the heroic operation carried out by two young members of the Islamic movement, the heroic martyr Amer Qawas and the heroic martyr Hossam Abu Ghazaleh, this morning in the Dead Sea area on the Jordanian-Palestinian border, which resulted in the injury of several soldiers of the…
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Article English PS 2024-10-16 Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar killed by Israeli forces in Rafah (16 Oct 2024)
Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and chairman of its political bureau, was killed on 16 October 2024 during an encounter with Israeli soldiers in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military announced his likely death on 17 October and confirmed it via dental records,…
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Speech Arabic PS 2024-10-07 Ziad al-Nakhalah (PIJ Secretary-General) — PROPOSED, EMPTY EXCERPT: no durable verbatim long-form located (verbatim fragments in Candidate quotes)
[EMPTY: no durable continuous 500+ token verbatim primary located after an exhaustive search. al-Nakhalah's long-form words exist only as (a) Arabic TV video or (b) paywalled MEMRI transcripts; every freely-durable English host (Press TV via GlobalSecurity, ITIC, JCPA, Times of Israel) reproduces only SHORT fragments…
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Article English TN 2024-10-06 Kais Saied re-elected President of Tunisia in a low-turnout vote (6 Oct 2024)
Incumbent Kais Saied won re-election in Tunisia's presidential election held on 6 October 2024 with about 90.7 percent of the vote. Official turnout was roughly 28.8 percent, the lowest of any national vote since the 2011 revolution. The contest was marked by the disqualification or imprisonment of several would-be…
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Speech English AE 2024-09-30 UAE — 79 UN GA Speech (Minister of State Shakhboot Al Nahyan, 30 Sep 2024, Sudan-SAF-attack-on-UAE-Ambassador + Iran-3-islands)
Unofficial English Translation. Statement by His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates at The General Debate of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 30 September 2024. CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Mr. President, [… …] Since its…
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Speech Arabic SY 2024-09-30 Syria — Assad-regime LAST UN GA Speech (FM Bassam Sabbagh, 30 Sep 2024, ~2 months before Dec 2024 fall)
كلمة بسام صباغ وزير الخارجية والمغتربين رئيس وفد الجمهورية العربية السورية إلى الدورة التاسعة والسبعين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — 30 أيلول 2024 [… …] لقد شهدت بلادي سورية، على مدى أكثر من عقدٍ مضى، معاناةً لا مثيل لها، حيث تعرضت إلى حربٍ إرهابية شرسة، وعدوان مباشر ومستمر على أراضيها، وحصار اقتصادي خانق متعدد…
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Speech English AE 2024-09-30 UAE — 79th UNGA address — Gaza ceasefire, Iran islands, Palestinian recognition (30 September 2024)
From the podium of this General Assembly, a place that has always embraced our ambitions and agonies, we call upon all of you to join hands and work together to create a better world for our sons and daughters, and for future generations. Since its inception, the UAE has adopted a transparent foreign policy, based on…
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Speech Arabic SY 2024-09-30 Tier 2 Syrian Arab Republic statement to the 79th UN General Assembly (FM Bassam Sabbagh), 30 Sep 2024 — Assad regime's final UNGA address before the December 2024 fall (English translation of Arabic original)
Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, As this session of the General Assembly is taking place, tensions internationally have reached a boiling point, and efforts to maintain international peace and security are confronted with real challenges and threats: clashes are intensifying, crises are multiplying, conflicts are…
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Article English LB 2024-09-27 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs (27 Sep 2024)
Hassan Nasrallah, who had led Hezbollah since 1992, was killed on 27 September 2024 in an Israeli airstrike on the group's headquarters in the Dahiyeh area south of Beirut while leadership were meeting there. Hezbollah confirmed his death on 28 September 2024, saying he had 'joined his fellow martyrs.' A senior…
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Speech Arabic YE 2024-09-26 Tier 1 Rashad al-Alimi — 79th UN General Assembly speech (26 Sep 2024)
يصادف حديثنا اليكم اليوم السادس والعشرين من سبتمبر الذي صنع فيه شعبنا التاريخ قبل 62 عاماً بإسقاط النظام الإمامي العنصري وإعلان الجمهورية، متحدّياً آلة البطش الحوثية المدعومة من النظام الإيراني. تظل الحكومة اليمنية ملتزمة بنهج السلام الشامل والعادل، لكنها بحاجة إلى نهج جماعي لدعمها وتنفيذ قرارات الشرعية الدولية الخاصة…
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Speech Arabic SD 2024-09-26 Abdel Fattah al-Burhan — Address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 26 September 2024 (official English interpretation of Arabic)
A war is being waged by a group of rebels receiving political and logistical support at the local and regional level. You've all witnessed the crimes, violations and atrocities committed by these rebels targeting the Sudanese people and the Sudanese State. […] the Sudanese Armed Forces is one of the State's oldest…
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Speech Arabic SD 2024-09-26 Tier 1 Abdel Fattah al-Burhan — 79th UN General Assembly speech (26 Sep 2024)
حرب شنتها مجموعة تمردت على الدولة (مليشيا الدعم السريع) بدعم محلي وإقليمي، وارتكبت جرائم تطهير عرقي وتهجير قسري وإبادة جماعية تستحق أن تُصنف جماعة إرهابية. هذه المجموعة الإرهابية المملوكة لآل دقلو تجد الدعم والمساندة من دول في الإقليم تمدهم بالمال والمرتزقة لتحقيق مكاسب سياسية واقتصادية. أولا يجب أن تنتهي العمليات…
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Speech Arabic SD 2024-09-26 Tier 2 Abdel Fattah al-Burhan address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 26 Sep 2024 (English translation of Arabic original)
Mr. President, Your Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellencies the Kings, Presidents, and Heads of Government, Ladies and Gentlemen, I address you today on behalf of the people and government of Sudan. Firstly, I am pleased to congratulate the President of the current session and his…
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Speech Arabic LY 2024-09-25 Tier 1 Libya — al-Menfi statement to the 79th UN General Assembly (25 Sep 2024, Presidential Council Chair)
عانت ليبيا على مدى أكثر من عقد من الزمن مراحل انتقالية متعاقبة، شابتها العديد من الصراعات والحروب غير المبررة بين الاشقاء، والتي غذّتها تدخلات خارجية تسعى إلى إضعاف الدولة والسيطرة على مواردها. إلا أن الانقسام المؤسسي الناتج عن العرقلة الممنهجة لبعض الاطراف السياسية أدى إلى تفاقم الأزمة، من خلق أجسام موازية إلى…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2024-09-24 Iraq — 79 UN GA Speech (Pres Abdullatif Jamal Rashid, Sept 2024, post-Daesh-victory + Development Road / BRI corridor)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السيد رئيس الجمعية العامة، السيد الأمين العام، السيدات والسادة الحضور السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته تأتي الدورة التاسعة والسبعون لاجتماعات الجمعية العامةِ للأمم المتحدةِ في خضمّ ظروفٍ خطيرة تمرُّ على الشرقِ الأوسط، يواجهُ فيها النظامُ الدوليُ العالميُ امتحاناً صعباً يهددُ وجودَه، ويجعلُهُ…
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Speech Arabic DZ 2024-09-24 Tier 1 Algeria — Statement to the 79th UN General Assembly (24 Sep 2024, Tebboune doctrine, delivered by FM Attaf)
1- شكراً السيد الرئِيس. نجتمعُ مجدداً في رِحاب مُنظمِتنا الأممية وعالمُنا يمر بمنعطف بالغِ الدقة والحساسية والخطورة، يَكْشِفُ عن حجم العجز الذي أصابَ منظومةَ الأمن الجماعي في ظل النزعة إلى حلِّ الخلافات بالقوة واللُّجوء المُفرط للإجراءات العقابية أحادية الجانب والاستخفاف بالشرعية الدولية. 3- فما يحدث في غزة من حربِ…
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Speech English JO 2024-09-24 Tier 2 King Abdullah II address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2024
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Mr President, Mr Secretary General, Your Excellencies: Over the past quarter-century, I have stood at this podium amidst regional conflicts, global upheavals, and humanitarian crises that have profoundly tested our global community. It often feels that there was…
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Speech Arabic MR 2024-09-24 Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — Address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2024 (Arabic original)
ونحن، في الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية، عملاً بمقتضى هذا الالتزام، جعلنا من تحقيق أهداف التنمية المستدامة، هدفاً مركزياً تتكامل في العمل على تحقيقه كل سياساتنا العمومية. وقد تمكنا، وإن بنحو طفيف، من تحسين مؤشرات العديد من أهداف التنمية المستدامة في بلادنا […]. وما ذاك إلا بفضل ما بذلناه من جهد مكثف في سبيل تكريس…
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Speech Arabic QA 2024-09-24 Tier 2 Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2024 (English translation of Arabic original)
In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Mr. President, The blatant aggression that befalls the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip today is the most barbaric and heinous and extensive in breaching human values, international charters and norms. This is not a war within the international relations'…
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Speech Arabic PS 2024-09-22 Tier 1 Mahmoud Abbas — 79th UN General Assembly speech (22 Sep 2024)
لن نرحل، لن نرحل، لن نرحل — فلسطين وطننا، وأرض آبائنا وأجدادنا، وستبقى لنا. آتي إليكم وشعبي يتعرض لجريمة حرب شاملة وإبادة جماعية تشنها إسرائيل، أكثر من 40 ألف شهيد. أوقفوا إرسال السلاح لإسرائيل، لا يمكن لهذا الجنون أن يستمر. المسجد الأقصى وما حوله مُلك حصري للمسلمين كما أقرته عصبة الأمم عام 1930. إن إسرائيل التي ترفض…
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Article English JO 2024-09-10 Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election (10 Sep 2024)
In Jordan's general election held on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of the 138 seats in the House of Representatives, more than any other party. It was the party's strongest result since 1989, with observers linking the gains to its stance on…
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Press release Arabic SD 2024-08-18 Hemedti (Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo) — public statement on negotiations and the war with al-Burhan, 18 August 2024 (English translation of Arabic)
Rapid Support Forces Commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo said on Sunday that it has become clear and unequivocal that Al-Burhan and his clique lack any real commitment to negotiations or working to alleviate the suffering of the people, who are facing great challenges due to the war 'ignited by the Islamic Movement and its…
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Article English PS 2024-07-31 Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran (31 Jul 2024)
Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas's political bureau, was assassinated in Tehran in the early hours of 31 July 2024 while staying at an IRGC-run guesthouse. He had travelled to Iran to attend the inauguration of newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian the previous day. A bodyguard was also killed. Haniyeh had…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2024-06-25 Aryeh Deri (Shas) — statement after the High Court Haredi-draft ruling, 25 June 2024 (English translation of Hebrew)
The Jewish people survived persecutions, pogroms and wars only thanks to maintaining their uniqueness, the Torah and the commandments. This is our secret weapon against all enemies, as promised by the creator of the world. [Deri called yeshiva students] the ones who preserve our special power and generate miracles in…
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Party platform English IQ 2024-06-01 PUK: 49 Years Struggle for Kurdistan — PUKMEDIA statement of principles & founding
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is a political party founded in the Kurdistan Region on June 1st, 1975. Its principles are democracy, human rights, and the right to self-determination. The PUK is a member of Socialist International. How did the PUK come into existence? The PUK was founded as a response to the…
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Article English KW 2024-05-10 Kuwait's Emir Mishal dissolves the National Assembly and suspends parts of the constitution for up to four years (10 May 2024)
On 10 May 2024, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah issued a decree dissolving the National Assembly and suspending several articles of the constitution for a period of up to four years. He said the step was intended to allow a comprehensive review of the democratic process, citing chronic deadlock…
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Interview Hebrew IL 2024-03-03 Yair Golan — interview, “Unite the Left, topple Netanyahu's government” (Jerusalem Post), 3 March 2024 (English rendering of Hebrew)
(On October 7, after a call that Hamas had begun to invade towns near Gaza, Golan launched a one-man rescue mission; reflecting on that day, he remembers one feeling: rage.) "I remember the moment. […] The feeling that came up was terrible rage, terrible anger. […] I am not angry at Hamas. Hamas hates us and is a…
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Speech English YE 2024-01-01 Rashad al-Alimi — Yemen Presidential Leadership Council Chairman doctrinal mosaic (Houthi-elimination 2024, Trump-redesignation-key-to-peace 2025, Taiz-liberation 2024)
From Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (b. 4 February 1954, Yemeni politician; Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC, Majlis al-Qiyada al-Ri'asi) since 7 April 2022 — the 8-member collective head-of-state body that replaced President Hadi by Saudi-brokered transition; Alimi previously served as Yemeni Minister…
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Speech English AE 2023-12-01 Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — Opening statement at the COP28 World Climate Action Summit, Dubai, 1 December 2023
Your Highnesses and Excellencies, Your Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations, distinguished guests, Peace be upon you all, I welcome you to the United Arab Emirates and to COP28. […] Our meeting comes at a time when the world faces many challenges, the most significant of which is climate change and…
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Speech English IL 2023-10-17 Netanyahu — 'children of light vs darkness' Oct-7 framing mosaic (Oct 2023 — Sep 2025)
Mosaic of Netanyahu post-Oct-7 statements (Oct 2023 — Sep 2025) capturing the apocalyptic-framing doctrine he deployed to legitimize the Gaza war response: October 7, 2023 (CNN), Tel Aviv: 'Citizens of Israel, we are at war – not in an operation, not in rounds – at war.' October 8, 2023 (Jerusalem Post): 'We are…
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Article English PS 2023-10-07 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel — 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' (7 October 2023)
On 7 October 2023, Hamas led a surprise attack from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel — which it named 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' — together with other Palestinian armed groups. About 1,200 people were killed in Israel, the deadliest single day in the country's history, and roughly 250 people were taken hostage into…
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Speech Arabic SY 2023-09-26 Bassam Sabbagh (Syria) at UN GA 78 — last pre-Oct-7 Assad-era UN speech: anti-coercive-measures + Golan + Russia alignment
كلمة السفير بسام صباغ رئيس وفد الجمهورية العربية السورية إلى الدورة الثامنة والسبعين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — الثلاثاء 26/9/2023 السيد دينيس فرانسيس رئيسُ الجمعيةِ العامة، […] يشهدُ عالمنا اليوم تحولاتٍ هامة، وتنامِ لتحدياتٍ خطيرة في مقدمتها اشتعال الصراعات المدمرة في مناطق عديدة حول العالم، واستمرار الاحتلال…
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Speech Arabic EG 2023-09-23 Egypt — National Statement to the 78th UN General Assembly, 23 September 2023 (delivered by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on behalf of the Sisi government)
First: In a world whose main attribute is interdependence and globalization, no one is secure unless everyone is secure. Simply put, the success of collective security is contingent upon the success of collective efforts and the effective application of principles inherent in the UN charter, and not on the selective…
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Speech English AE 2023-09-23 UAE — 78th UNGA address — 'Zero Problems with Neighbours', pre-Oct-7 framing, COP28 launch (23 September 2023)
The UAE declared this year the Year of Sustainability, under the theme 'Today for Tomorrow' to honour our shared responsibility to present and future generations, who deserve to live in a world that is safe, and prosperous. The UAE believes that this fundamental premise should guide our approach to the existential…
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Press release Arabic EG 2023-09-23 Egypt national statement to the UN General Assembly, 78th session (2023) — delivered by FM Sameh Shoukry
In a world whose main attribute is interdependence and globalization, no one is secure unless everyone is secure. Simply put, the success of collective security is contingent upon the success of collective efforts and the effective application of principles inherent in the UN charter, and not on the selective…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2023-09-22 Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 22 Sep 2023 (Arabic original — Tier-1 primary; English translation needed for scoring)
كلمة السيد محمد شياع السوداني رئيس وزراء جمهورية العراق أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — الدورة 78 — 22 أيلول/سبتمبر 2023. السيد رئيس الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، السيد الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، أصحاب الجلالة والفخامة والمعالي، السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. إن إرادة الاتفاق والتفاهم تغلبت في العراق الجديد،…
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Speech English IL 2023-09-22 PM Benjamin Netanyahu 'New Middle East' address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 22 Sep 2023 — 15 days before October 7
Ladies and Gentlemen, Over three millennia ago, our great leader Moses addressed the people of Israel as they were about to enter the Promised Land. He said they would find there two mountains facing one another: Mount Gerizim, the site on which a great blessing would be proclaimed, and Mount Ebal, the site of a…
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Speech Arabic YE 2023-09-21 Rashad al-Alimi — Speech of the President of the Presidential Leadership Council before the 78th UN General Assembly, 21 September 2023 (official English translation)
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, since I am addressing you today in this hall for the second time as President of the Presidential Leadership Council of the Republic of Yemen, allow me to brief you on the current scene [...] in my country afflicted by the war of the Houthi militias supported by the Iranian…
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Interview Arabic IQ 2023-09-21 Mohammed Shia al-Sudani — “A Conversation With the Prime Minister of Iraq” (Council on Foreign Relations transcript), 21 September 2023 (English interpretation of Arabic)
AL-SUDANI: Twenty years after the major change in Iraq […] We went through a very painful experience in countering the regime starting with al-Qaida and ending with ISIS/Daesh. After we accomplished victory over Daesh […] The battle against Daesh unified all Iraqi citizens with all the components and affiliations.…
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Speech Arabic PS 2023-09-21 Mahmoud Abbas — Address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 21 September 2023 (official English text)
Once again, I come to you carrying the cause of my people, who are struggling for freedom and independence, to remind you of the tragedy caused by the Nakba since seventy-five years ago […]. […] we still maintain hope that your esteemed organization will be able to implement its resolutions demanding an end to the…
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Speech English PS 2023-09-21 President Mahmoud Abbas address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 21 Sep 2023 — 16 days before October 7 (English translation of Arabic original)
In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful His Excellency Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the United Nations General Assembly, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ladies and Gentlemen, Once again, I come to you carrying the cause of my people, who are…
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Speech Arabic PS 2023-09-21 Mahmoud Abbas — UN General Assembly address, 78th session (2023)
Once again, I come to you carrying the cause of my people, who are struggling for freedom and independence, to remind you of the tragedy caused by the Nakba since seventy-five years ago, the effects of which continue to be exacerbated by the Israeli occupation of our territory. This occupation that challenges your…
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Speech Arabic QA 2023-09-19 Tier 2 Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 19 Sep 2023 (English translation of Arabic original) — pre-October 7 doctrine
In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Mr. President, God has bestowed a favor on us by living in an era of unprecedented accelerating progress, in which an innovative spirit prevails in the fields of medicine, technology and science in general. The sequent innovations have brought about…
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Interview Hebrew IL 2023-08-27 Itamar Ben-Gvir — “The right to life supersedes the right to free movement” (Jerusalem Post, on his Channel 12 interview), 27 August 2023 (English translation of Hebrew)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir doubled down on remarks he made in a Channel 12 television interview, in which he argued that Jewish Israelis' safety on West Bank roads outweighs Palestinians' freedom of movement. "It is simple," he said. "The right to life supersedes the right to free movement." "My…
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Bill Hebrew IL 2023-07-24 Reasonableness Standard Law — Basic Law: The Judiciary (Amendment No. 3), Knesset, 24 July 2023
Notwithstanding the provisions of this basic law, those who have jurisdiction by law, including the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice, will not consider the reasonableness of a decision of the government, the prime minister, or any other minister, and shall not issue an order in this regard. In this…
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Article Arabic SY 2023-05-07 Arab League readmits Syria; Assad attends the Jeddah summit, 7 May 2023
Syria's participation in the Arab League had been suspended in November 2011 over the Assad government's violent crackdown on the country's pro-democracy uprising. On 7 May 2023, meeting in an extraordinary session in Cairo, Arab League foreign ministers adopted decision no. 8914 resuming the participation of Syrian…
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Article English SD 2023-04-15 Sudan war erupts — the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces clash in Khartoum (15 April 2023)
On 15 April 2023, heavy fighting erupted in Khartoum and at military sites nationwide, including the city's airport and the Merowe air base, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) commanded by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo,…
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Article English SA 2023-03-10 China-brokered Saudi–Iran agreement to restore diplomatic relations (Beijing), 10 March 2023
On 10 March 2023, after four days of talks in Beijing hosted and mediated by China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced an agreement to restore diplomatic relations that had been severed for more than seven years. The two governments agreed to reopen their embassies and missions within a period not exceeding two months…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2023-02-26 Tier 3 Bezalel Smotrich — Israeli far-right doctrinal mosaic (Decisive Plan 2017, Huwara 2023, 82%-West-Bank-annexation 2025)
From Bezalel Smotrich (b. 1980, Religious Zionism party chairman, Israeli Finance Minister + Minister in the Defense Ministry over civil administration in the West Bank from 29 Dec 2022 onward): **2015** (interview, cited in The Intercept 2023): "The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an…
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Party platform Arabic PS 2023-01-01 حزب الشعب الفلسطيني — التعريف والبرنامج السياسي والأهداف (Palestinian People's Party — profile, political program & objectives)
حزب الشعب الفلسطيني، هو حزب فلسطيني وطني ديمقراطي يساري اشتراكي، يناضل من اجل انجاز الحقوق الوطنية للشعب الفلسطيني، ومن اجل حقوق الفئات الفقيرة والمسحوقة والمهمشة، وفي المقدمة منها العمال وفقراء الفلاحين , ويسعي لتحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية، بمعني تحقيق أقصي درجات المساواة والرفاه الاجتماعي لكافة أبناء المجتمع الفلسطيني…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-12-21 Tier 2 Likud–United Torah Judaism coalition agreement, 37th government (signed 21 Dec 2022) — selected clauses: religion-state status quo (§22, §24), yeshiva conscription exemption & Basic Law: Torah Study (§18), and the judicial-overhaul / override-clause commitment (§49). Full agreement text first published by JDN; substance corroborated by mainstream reporting (Times of Israel, Maariv).
18. לאור החשיבות שהעם היהודי העניק ומעניק ללימוד תורה לאורך הדורות, תושלם חקיקת חוק יסוד: לימוד תורה הקובעת שלימוד התורה הוא ערך יסוד במורשת העם היהודי, וזאת עד להעברת תקציב לשנת 2023. בד בבד, עד העברת התקציב לשנת 2023, יושלם תיקון לחוק שירות הביטחון להסדרת מעמדם של תלמידי הישיבות בהסכמת כל סיעות הקואליציה. סיעת יהדות…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2022-10-13 Tier 3 Itamar Ben-Gvir — Israeli far-right doctrinal mosaic (Rabin-threat 1995, Arab-expulsion 2019, "I am your landlord" 2022, West Bank 2023)
From Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976, Otzma Yehudit chairman, Israeli Minister of National Security from 29 Dec 2022 onward in Netanyahu's sixth government): **1995** (Israeli television, on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin — then 19-year-old Ben-Gvir holding the hood ornament stolen from Rabin's Cadillac, weeks before Rabin's…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-10-01 Meretz — 2022 (25th Knesset) party platform, Chapter 3: 'Security and Peace' (מצע מרצ; Hebrew original)
3. ביטחון ושלום ביטחון הוא אינטרס עליון ותנאי לשלום, ושלום הוא מרכיב יסודי בתפיסת ביטחון שלמה. סיום הכיבוש וחלוקת הארץ לשתי מדינות עבור שני העמים היושבים בה הכרחיים הן לשלום והן לביטחון. 3.1 ביטחון תפיסת הביטחון של מדינת ישראל לא יכולה להתבסס אך ורק על בניית כוח צבאי להרתעה והפעלתו בתגובה לאיומים. היעד המדיני העליון…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-10-01 Tier 1 Meretz — 2022 (25th Knesset) party platform, Ch.3 'Security and Peace' (מצע מרצ)
3. ביטחון ושלום ביטחון הוא אינטרס עליון ותנאי לשלום, ושלום הוא מרכיב יסודי בתפיסת ביטחון שלמה. סיום הכיבוש וחלוקת הארץ לשתי מדינות עבור שני העמים היושבים בה הכרחיים הן לשלום והן לביטחון. 3.1 ביטחון: היעד המדיני העליון של מדינת ישראל הוא קיום בשלום ובשיתוף פעולה עם כל שכנותיה וסיום השליטה על הפלסטינים. סיום הכיבוש הוא…
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Speech English IL 2022-09-22 Prime Minister Yair Lapid — Address to the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (22 September 2022)
Conducting this orchestra of hate, is Iran. For more than forty years now, in the town squares and on the streets of Iran, demonstrators have been photographed burning Israeli and American flags. [… …] This is a regime that systematically deals with hatred. Iran's regime hates Jews, hates women, hates gay people,…
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Speech English IL 2022-09-22 Tier 2 Yair Lapid address to the UN General Assembly (77th session), 22 Sep 2022
Israel's economic and military strength allows us to protect ourselves but it also allows us something else: To strive for peace with the entire Arab world. And with our closest neighbors – the Palestinians. An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel's…
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Speech Arabic LB 2022-09-21 Mikati — UN GA 77 (Sep 2022): Lebanon's economic collapse, IMF deal, Israel maritime border, NPwA, refugees
كلمة دولة رئيس الحكومة اللبنانية الأستاذ نجيب ميقاتي أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة للدورة السابعة والسبعين — نيويورك في 21 أيلول 2022. […] أخص بالشكر قوات الطوارئ الدولية (اليونيفيل) لما تبذله من تضحيات وجهود من أجل الحفاظ على الاستقرار في جنوب لبنان، بالتنسيق الوثيق مع الجيش اللبناني الذي نتطلع معكم وعبركم إلى…
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Speech Arabic MA 2022-09-20 Akhannouch — UN GA 77 (Sep 2022): Morocco PM, autonomy plan, Algeria-named accusations on Tindouf
كلمة معالي السيد عزيز أخنوش، رئيس حكومة المملكة المغربية أمام المناقشة العامة للدورة 77 للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — نيويورك، الثلاثاء 20 شتنبر 2022. […] تعتبر القارة الإفريقية الأكثر تضررا من تداعيات الوضعية الاقتصادية الصعبة التي أنتجتها الأزمة الجيوسياسية العالمية، حيث تتحمل العبئ الأكبر جراء ارتفاع أسعار المواد…
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Speech English JO 2022-09-20 Tier 2 King Abdullah II address to the 77th UN General Assembly, 20 Sep 2022
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Mr President, Mr Secretary General, Your Excellencies: We meet today, in this General Assembly, as the alarm bells ring all around us. Numerous crises batter our world; crises that are increasingly interlocked—regional conflicts with international impact,…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-09-01 עקרונות המחנה הממלכתי (Principles of National Unity / The State Camp, 2022)
המחנה הממלכתי מאמין שמדינת ישראל היא מדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית, מדינת הלאום של העם היהודי, שמחזקת את ההתיישבות היהודית בארץ ישראל על פי האינטרסים הלאומיים ועל פי חוקי המדינה וכן מקיימת קשר עם יהדות התפוצות. נפעל כדי שהמרחב הציבורי יביא לידי ביטוי את זהותה היהודית של המדינה, ובה בעת תישמר החירות האישית של כל אזרח בלי קשר…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-09-01 מצע יש עתיד — דת ומדינה (Yesh Atid platform — Religion & State chapter)
עיצוב הזהות היהודית של המדינה צריך להיעשות מתוך מחויבות לכלל המרכיבים הקיומיים בחוסנה וביציבותה של מדינת ישראל בהווה ובעתיד – היותה יהודית, דמוקרטית, ליברלית, חזקה, מתקדמת ומשגשגת. יש עתיד מאמינה כי מדינת ישראל היא בית לאומי לעם היהודי בארץ ישראל ומחויבת לשמור ולהגן על זכויות האדם של כל אזרחיה על כל גווניה. … אנו…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-09-01 Tier 1 מצע מפלגת העבודה לכנסת ה-25 (Labor Party platform, 25th Knesset)
מפלגת העבודה המתחדשת מבקשת להחזיר את האמת לפוליטיקה ולהיות בית פוליטי עבור כל האזרחים והאזרחיות המאמינים בשוויון, בצדק חברתי ובשלום. היא מפלגה ציונית וסוציאל-דמוקרטית, המייצגת את החברה הישראלית כולה. מפלגת העבודה מחויבת להגדלת ההשקעה הממשלתית באזרחים ובאזרחיות ולשינוי מדיניות התקציב השמרנית והמצמצמת, לשיקום התשתיות…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2022-08-29 Muqtada al-Sadr — statement announcing his 'final retirement' from politics (Twitter communiqué, 29 August 2022; Arabic original)
يظن الكثيرون بما فيهم السيد الحائري (دام ظله) أن هذه القيادة جاءت بفضلهم أو بأمرهم... كلا، إن ذلك بفضل ربي أولا ومن فيوضات السيد الوالد قُدس سره... الذي لم يتخل عن العراق وشعبه. وعلى الرغم من استقالته، فإن النجف الأشرف هي المقر الأكبر للمرجعية كما هو الحال دوما... وإنني لم أدع يوما العصمة أو الاجتهاد ولا حتى (القيادة)…
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Bill Arabic TN 2022-07-25 Constitution of the Republic of Tunisia (2022) — adopted by referendum under President Kais Saied
The constitution adopted by referendum on 25 July 2022 under President Kais Saied replaced the 2014 charter and installed a hyper-presidential system. The president determines the general policy of the state (Art. 100), freely appoints and dismisses the head of government and ministers, and the government is…
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Arabic TN 2022-07-25 Tier 2 Tunisia 2022 Constitution — Article 5 (state-religion clause) and surrounding context, drafted under Kais Saied, ratified by referendum 25 Jul 2022 (English translation of Arabic original)
Constitutional text drafted under President Kais Saied, published in the Official Gazette 30 June 2022 (amended 8 July 2022), ratified by referendum 25 July 2022. The 2022 Constitution replaced Tunisia's 2014 Constitution and concentrates executive power in the presidency. **Article 5 (the state-religion clause, as…
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Party platform English LB 2022-04-28 Tier 1 Kataeb Party — 'A Lebanese Vision: 178 Steps Towards a Better Lebanon' (2022 program, English edition)
Sovereignty is a constituent principle of the State. The institutions of the Lebanese state fell under the grip of Hezbollah, which controls the sovereignty aspects, launches drones independently from the legitimate Lebanese armed forces, and has been engaged in regional cross-border conflicts at the service of the…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2022-01-01 المبادئ العامة — النظام العام لحزب الكتائب اللبنانية (Kataeb Party general principles, Articles 1–10)
المادة ١: يؤلف اللبنانيون واللبنانيات والمتحدرون والمتحدرات من اصل لبناني وكل من يلتزم مبادئ وأهداف الحزب والنظام العام، حزباً سياسياً إسمه "حزب الكتائب اللبنانية - الحزب الديمقراطي الاجتماعي اللبناني". المادة ٢: يؤمن الكتائبيون والكتائبيات بأن لبنان هو وطن نهائي يستمد وجوده السياسي من تاريخه ودوره، ومن مدى إرادة…
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Article English SD 2021-10-25 Sudan: al-Burhan seizes power in the 25 October 2021 coup, dissolving the transitional government
On 25 October 2021, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's Sovereign Council, declared a nationwide state of emergency, dissolved the Sovereign Council and the civilian-led transitional cabinet, and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and several ministers, ending the power-sharing transition established…
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Speech English IL 2021-09-27 Bennett — UN GA 76 (Sep 2021): Israel PM's first/only UN address, Iran 'butcher of Tehran', Hamas/Hezbollah, NO Palestine mention
Thank you Mr. President. Distinguished delegates, Israel is a lighthouse in a stormy sea. A beacon of democracy, diverse by design, innovative by nature and eager to contribute to the world – despite being in the toughest neighborhood on earth. We are an ancient nation. Returned - to our ancient homeland, Revived -…
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Speech English IL 2021-09-27 Naftali Bennett — UN General Assembly address, 76th session (2021)
We are an ancient nation. Returned - to our ancient homeland, Revived - our ancient language, Restored - our ancient sovereignty. Israel is a miracle of Jewish revival. Am Yisrael Chai - the nation of Israel is alive, and the State of Israel is its beating heart. While Israel strives to do good, we cannot lose sight…
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Speech English IL 2021-09-27 Naftali Bennett — Address to the 76th UN General Assembly, 27 September 2021
Israel is a lighthouse in a stormy sea. A beacon of democracy, diverse by design, innovative by nature […]. We are an ancient nation. […] Israel is a miracle of Jewish revival. Am Yisrael Chai - the nation of Israel is alive, and the State of Israel is its beating heart. [… …] Israel is, quite literally, surrounded…
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Speech Arabic SD 2021-09-25 Abdalla Hamdok — Sudan's statement to the 76th UN General Assembly, 25 September 2021 (Arabic original)
السيد الرئيس، إننا نُعلّقُ أهميةً كبرى على مسألة سيادة حكم القانون على المستويين الوطني والدولي، ونبذلُ لذلك جهوداً مستمرة لمراجعة القوانين الوطنية، بُغية تطويرها وضمان اتساقها مع المعايير والاتفاقيات الدولية، باعتبار أن تحقيق سيادة القانون على المستوى الوطني هي مسؤولية الدول والحكومات. وفي إطار سيادة حكم القانون…
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Speech Arabic LB 2021-09-24 Michel Aoun — UN GA 76 (Sep 2021): last Aoun-presidency UN, Beirut port truth-quest, Akkar Academy, Israel maritime border
كلمة فخامة رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية العماد ميشال عون أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة الدورة العادية السادسة والسبعين — نيويورك في 24ं / 09 / 2021. […] والشكر أيضاً لكل السادة رؤساء الدول الذين شاركوا بتلك المؤتمرات وللمنظمات الحكومية وغير الحكومية ولكل من ساهم في هذا الدعم، وأخص بالشكر فرنسا التي سارع رئيسها الى…
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Speech English PS 2021-09-24 President Mahmoud Abbas address to the 76th UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2021 — the one-year ultimatum speech (English translation of Arabic original)
H.E. Mr. Abdullah Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies Heads of Delegations and Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba. More than half the Palestinian people were uprooted…
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Speech Arabic SA 2021-09-22 Saudi Arabia — King Salman's address to the 76th UN General Assembly, September 2021 (“The Kingdom speech”, English text)
The essence of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 is to achieve prosperity, build a better future, and create a leading economy as well as dynamic society engaged with the world. Five years since the inception of Vision 2030, we have made tremendous headway in supporting local industry, developing infrastructure, information…
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Speech English JO 2021-09-22 Abdullah II — 76th UNGA address — Hashemite Custodianship & two-state pole (22 September 2021)
Mr President, Mr Secretary General, Your Excellencies: It is a special pleasure to be part of this General Assembly, as our countries join in a common cause—to act on shared concerns; to be alert to serious global threats; and to move forward, faster, to the world that our people deserve, leaving no one behind. My…
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Speech English QA 2021-09-21 Tamim — 76th UNGA address — Al-Ula reconciliation, Iran dialogue, Palestinian centrality (21 September 2021)
Honorable Audience, The issue of conflicts has kept the United Nations busy and placed many burdens on it since its foundation. Unfortunately, the Middle East region is a source of a large part of these burdens. Hence, Qatar considers contributing to the field of peaceful resolution of conflicts, including putting…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2021-08-27 البرنامج الانتخابي لحزب العدالة والتنمية 2021 (PJD 2021 electoral programme — the 5 axes)
يتقدم حزب العدالة والتنمية إلى الانتخابات التشريعية 2021 ببرنامج انتخابي طموح يجسد من خلاله وفائه الدائم لقضايا الوطن، وانخراطه المتجدد في مواصلة خدمة المواطنات والمواطنين وتحقيق تطلعاتهم، بثبات ومسؤولية واجتهاد، وفق منهجية إصلاحية ترتكز على التعاون المبدئي والثابت مع المؤسسة الملكية، ونبذ الصراع والتنازع على السلطة،…
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Speech Arabic TN 2021-07-25 Kais Saied — 25 July 2021 address invoking Article 80 to freeze parliament and dismiss the PM (Arabic original)
«شاء الله وشاءت الأقدار وشاء التاريخ في هذا اليوم الذي نحتفل فيه بذكرى إعلان الجمهورية، أن نتخذ جملة من التدابير الاستثنائية التي يقتضيها الوضع في تونس، تلاحظون دون شك أن عديد المناطق العمومية تتهاوى، وهناك عمليات حرق ونهب، وهناك من يستعد الآن لدفع الأموال في بعض الأحياء للاقتتال الداخلي. [… …] بعد أن تم التشاور عملا…
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Interview Arabic DZ 2021-06-08 Abdelmadjid Tebboune — main statements to Al Jazeera (APS state-agency summary), 8 June 2021 (English rendering of Arabic)
ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune has granted an interview to the Qatari news channel Al Jazeera […] in which he raised several crucial national and regional issues […]. At the domestic level, the president of the Republic said "the genuine and blessed Hirak (protest movement) has saved the…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2021-04-01 Tier 2 Mansour Abbas prime-time address: 'coexistence based on mutual respect', 1 Apr 2021 (English translation of Hebrew original)
"I carry a prayer of hope, and the search for coexistence based on mutual respect and genuine equality. What we have in common is greater than what divides us." "I, Mansour Abbas, a man of the Islamic Movement, am a proud Arab and Muslim, a citizen of the state of Israel, who heads the leading, biggest political…
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Party platform English IL 2021-03-23 Tier 2 7 Principles for New Hope (Tikva Hadasha) — party platform (official English edition)
7 Principles for New Hope 1. Israel is Jewish and Democratic. New Hope will preserve Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and a democratic state. 2. Fortifying National Strengths. New Hope will preserve Israel's national security and develop Israel's components of power – military, economic, technological,…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2021-01-01 Tier 1 قصتنا (Our Story) — RNI / التجمع الوطني للأحرار official party identity & principles
National Rally of Independents
تأسس التجمع الوطني للأحرار في أكتوبر 1978 على يد أحمد عصمان. يرتكز التجمع الوطني للأحرار على "الديمقراطية الاجتماعية" كمرجعية سياسية مبنية على العدالة الاجتماعية والتمكين للمواطن. وينشد الحزب المساواة كونها الضامن لاستفادة المغاربة من الفرص بشكل متساوٍ، والتساوي في الحقوق والواجبات والتعلم والشغل والعلاج. يؤمن الحزب…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2021-01-01 قصتنا (Our Story) — RNI / التجمع الوطني للأحرار official party identity & principles page
National Rally of Independents
يعود تاريخ حزبنا لأزيد من أربعة عقود من الزمن، ففي أكتوبر من سنة 1978 تم تأسيسه من طرف المناضل التاريخي أحمد عصمان، إلى جانب تلة من المناضلين المستقلين، ومنذ ذلك الحين ولحزبنا دور هام في الحياة السياسية المغربية. يرتكز التجمع الوطني للأحرار على "الديمقراطية الاجتماعية" كمرجعية سياسية. هذه المرجعية مبنية على العدالة…
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Interview Other TN 2020-09-23 Abir Moussi — 'Ennahdha n'est pas un parti de souche tunisienne' (Jeune Afrique interview, 23 September 2020)
Vous avez fait d'Ennahdha votre ennemi juré. Pourquoi ? Ennahdha n'est pas un parti de souche tunisienne : il est une émanation ou une filiale de l'organisation internationale des Frères Musulmans. Les liens sont attestés. D'ailleurs, l'autorisation obtenue par Ennahdha pour opérer en tant que parti n'est pas…
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Speech English JO 2020-09-22 Abdullah II — UN GA 75 (Sep 2020): first virtual GA, renewed-globalization doctrine, food-security-hub offer, Hashemite custodianship
خطاب صاحب الجلالة الملك عبد الله الثاني بن الحسين ملك المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية — الجمعية العامة، الدورة الخامسة والسبعون، الجلسة العامة 4، 22 أيلول/سبتمبر 2020 (المحضر الرسمي A/75/PV.4، المرفق التاسع). بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. […] هذه في واقع الأمر أوقات استثنائية في تاريخنا وفي تاريخ الأمم المتحدة، عندما نجتمع…
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Article English IL 2020-09-15 Abraham Accords signed at the White House — Israel normalizes with the UAE and Bahrain, 15 September 2020
On 15 September 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords at a White House ceremony hosted by President Donald Trump, alongside UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani. The UAE and Bahrain became the…
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Article Arabic IQ 2020-07-20 Ammar al-Hakim — “Historic Opportunity to Build a Strong Iraqi State” (Asharq al-Awsat op-ed), 20 July 2020 (English translation of Arabic)
The conflict of the state and non-state in Iraq began when fundamental changes were introduced to its system of rule. […] We can either have a state or a non-state. It is from this point that a state can begin to take shape and grow. A state based on institutions is the foundation of the Mihrab Martyr's political…
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Article English EG 2020-01-23 Ayman Nour — “Egypt's choice is clear: Democracy – or chaos under Sisi” (Middle East Eye op-ed), 23 January 2020
On 25 January, Egyptians will celebrate the ninth anniversary of the revolution. […] Nine years on, Egypt has become one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Popular anger has reached a turning point, as evidenced by recent protests. […] with more than 60,000 political prisoners, including more than 300 on…
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Speech Arabic MA 2019-11-06 King Mohammed VI — Speech to the Nation on the 44th Anniversary of the Green March, 6 November 2019 (official English translation)
Dear Citizens, The Green March has always been the best illustration of the effective cohesion between the Throne and the people. It is testimony to the ability of Moroccans - the King and the people - to rise to the challenges facing the nation. This is a never-ending march. Indeed, the spirit which enabled us to…
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Speech Arabic TN 2019-10-23 Tier 2 Kais Saied presidential oath and inaugural remarks, Tunis, 23 Oct 2019 (mosaic of verbatim quotes; English translation of Arabic original)
Speaker: Kais Saied, on inauguration as President of the Tunisian Republic at the Assembly of People's Representatives, Tunis. Date: 23 October 2019. The constitutional oath of office, taken verbatim: "I swear by Almighty God to safeguard the independence of the homeland and the integrity of its territory, to respect…
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Article English IL 2019-09-22 Ayman Odeh — 'We Are Ending Netanyahu's Grip on Israel' (The New York Times op-ed, 22 September 2019)
JERUSALEM — The Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel have chosen to reject Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his politics of fear and hate, and the inequality and division he advanced for the past decade. Last summer, Mr. Netanyahu declared that Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up a fifth of the…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 2019-07-01 להיות נורמלי (To Be Normal) — Noam party principles statement
הנורמה נקבעת לפי הרוב הגדול ביותר שניתן להתייחס אליו. […] לאורך כל הדורות, ההמשכיות של העם שלנו, עם ישראל, נקבעה לפי המשפחה. הקשר לעם דרך האימא, והייחוס המשפחתי לפי האבא. […] התחייבו לשמור ולקיים את כל המצוות והמנהגים של עם ישראל. […] בשנים האחרונות יש פגיעה מהותית בנורמליות שלנו. […] אנחנו חייבים להתעורר. לחזור…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 2019-07-01 Tier 1 להיות נורמלי (To Be Normal) — Noam party principles statement
הנורמה נקבעת לפי הרוב הגדול ביותר שניתן להתייחס אליו. לאורך כל הדורות, ההמשכיות של העם שלנו, עם ישראל, נקבעה לפי המשפחה. הקשר לעם דרך האימא, והייחוס המשפחתי לפי האבא. התחייבו לשמור ולקיים את כל המצוות והמנהגים של עם ישראל. בשנים האחרונות יש פגיעה מהותית בנורמליות שלנו. אנחנו חייבים להתעורר. לחזור להיות נורמליים. להיות…
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Interview Arabic LY 2019-06-19 Khalifa Haftar — exclusive interview “Roadmap Beyond Tripoli” (Al Marsad / Libyan Address), 19 June 2019 (English translation of Arabic)
First and foremost, we count on the efforts of our own soldiers and officers, and on the support of the Libyan people […]. Such change begins with the war on terror, the dismantling of militias, and the ending of this phase of the hijacked authority that lacks proper authorization by the people. No, the solution must…
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Speech Arabic SA 2019-05-30 Tier 3 King Salman bin Abdulaziz — Saudi monarchy doctrinal mosaic (charity-not-extremism 2002, Iran condemnation 2019)
From King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (b. 31 December 1935, 7th king of Saudi Arabia 23 January 2015 onward; Governor of Riyadh for 48 years before that; father of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; son of founder King Abdulaziz Al Saud): **On his decades-long Riyadh governorship** (Salman's signature…
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Article English SD 2019-04-11 Military ousts Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir after mass protests, 11 April 2019
Protests that began in December 2018 over rising bread prices and a collapsing economy widened into a nationwide movement demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled Sudan for 30 years. On 6 April 2019 demonstrators began a mass sit-in outside the army's general command headquarters in…
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Party platform English IL 2019-04-09 Tier 2 Otzma Yehudit party platform — 'Aliya, Construction, Emigration and Peace' (2019; English edition)
We of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) recognize the demographic problem and intend to tackle head on, with determination and power, the disaster that lies ahead. To beat the enemy, not to surrender to them. To fight for a Jewish State and to win. Let us be clear: To wage war on the enemy is not racism, there is no…
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Party platform Arabic YE 2019-03-26 الرؤية الوطنية لبناء الدولة اليمنية الحديثة (National Vision for Building the Modern Yemeni State) — Ansar Allah / SPC governance programme
بعد مرور عامٍ من إطلاق الرئيس الشهيد صالح الصماد لمشروع بناء الدولة "يدٌ تحمي ويدٌ تبني" يقر المجلس السياسي الأعلى الرؤية الوطنية لبناء الدولة اليمنية الحديثة، ويصدر بها قرار رئيس المجلس السياسي الأعلى رقم "82" لسنة 2019م … إن محور هذه الرؤية وغايتها هو المواطن اليمني فهو أسمى وأعظم ثروة … مدعومة بدولة قادرة تعتمد…
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Manifesto Arabic TN 2019-02-01 البيان الختامي للقاءات الجهات — حركة تحيا تونس (Tahya Tounes founding closing declaration)
تونس "اللي نحبّوها" تستحق التّضحية لذا نجتمع اليوم، إطارات سياسية وناشطين مدنيين، فعاليات وحساسيات فكرية، سياسية من كل جهات البلاد تؤمن بمبادئ وقيم الجمهورية والديمقراطية والتقدميّة والحداثة والعدالة الاجتماعية. ونتمسّك بإرث الحركة الإصلاحية التونسية من خير الدين باشا إلى محمد علي الحامي، الطاهر الحداد، فرحات حشاد…
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Speech English LB 2018-12-13 Saad Hariri — “Lebanon: A Vision for the Future” (Chatham House, on-the-record address & Q&A), 13 December 2018
[…] I always say to people, you know, this is a regional issue, this is not a Lebanese issue. This is an Iranian issue and if we want to deal with the issue, let's sit down on a table and let's stop these wars and let's talk about how we resolve these issues in the region. If we want to make peace with Israel, we have…
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Interview English IQ 2018-10-22 Bafel Talabani (PUK) — interview ruling out a return to the PUK–KDP civil war (Al Jazeera, via Rudaw), 22 October 2018
"Over my dead body. And over the dead body of many, many Kurds. This is just not something that will happen. […] We are still paying the price of that internal conflict. Kurds will not, should not, and absolutely must not be allowed to kill Kurds. We need to be able to resolve our issues politically. I think this…
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English SA 2018-10-17 Tier 1 Jamal Khashoggi — Washington Post columns 2017-2018 mosaic (anti-MBS critique, free expression, Yemen war, last column posthumous)
From Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018, Saudi journalist, former editor-in-chief of Al-Watan and former advisor to Prince Turki bin Faisal; broke with the Saudi regime over MBS's repression of dissent and self-exiled to the US in 2017; murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on or about 2 October 2018…
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Article English SA 2018-10-02 Killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, 2 October 2018
Jamal Khashoggi — a Washington Post columnist and prominent Saudi critic — was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia initially denied any knowledge of his fate, then acknowledged he had died inside the consulate, describing it as the…
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Speech English IL 2018-09-27 PM Benjamin Netanyahu address to the 73rd UN General Assembly, 27 Sep 2018 — the 'secret atomic warehouse' map speech
Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I spoke here, three years ago, Israel stood alone among the nations. Of the nearly 200 countries that sit in this hall, only Israel openly opposed the nuclear deal with Iran. We oppose it because it threatens our future, even our very survival. We oppose it because…
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Speech Arabic LB 2018-09-26 Tier 2 Michel Aoun address to the UN General Assembly (73rd session), 26 Sep 2018 (English translation of Arabic original)
In Lebanon, we are groping our way to rise from the consecutive crises that struck us at various levels. In security, Lebanon managed to consolidate its security and stability after having abolished the agglomerations of terrorists from its Eastern and Northern barrens, and after having dismantled their sleeper…
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Speech Arabic LB 2018-09-26 Michel Aoun — UN General Assembly address, 73rd session (2018)
Security-Council Resolution 425 of 1978, which called Israel to withdraw its forces from all the Lebanese territories immediately, was only implemented 22 years later, under the pressure of the resistance of the Lebanese people. In contrast, we see that the General Assembly's Resolution 181 of 1947, stipulating the…
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Bill Hebrew IL 2018-07-19 Basic Law: Israel — the Nation State of the Jewish People (Knesset, 19 July 2018)
BASIC-LAW: ISRAEL - THE NATION STATE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE Basic principles 1. (a) The Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish People, in which the State of Israel was established. (b) The State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish People in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious and…
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Party platform Arabic DZ 2018-05-12 البرنامج السياسي لحركة مجتمع السلم (المؤتمر السابع الاستثنائي، 2018) — MSP Political Programme
الفصل الأول : التوجه السياسي العام واستراتيجية المشاركة – حركة مجتمع السلم حركة سياسية شعبية إصلاحية شاملة، تعتمد على منهج تغييري سلمي وسطي معتدل، يستهدف بناء الفرد والأسرة والمجتمع، وتشارك في العملية السياسية من أجل استكمال بناء الدولة الجزائرية الديمقراطية الاجتماعية ذات السيادة في إطار المبادئ الإسلامية، من خلال…
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Interview English SA 2018-04-05 Mohammed bin Salman — TIME interview (during his April 2018 U.S. tour)
TIME: How long have you been thinking about doing this [tour], and what's your rationale behind this? Mohammed bin Salman: When I started to think about doing a tour, we had a plan for Saudi Arabia. […] The United States of America is one of our oldest allies in the whole world, and we are the oldest ally of the…
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Party platform Arabic SD 2018-01-28 مقتطفات من التقرير السياسي للحزب الشيوعي السوداني (Sudanese Communist Party Political Report excerpts)
مقاومة الدكتاتورية الحركة النقابية تواجه النظام سجلت حركة الجماهير حضوراً فاعلاً في مقاومة نظام 30 يونيو 1989 كما تجلى في مذكرة القادة النقابيين في 30 يوليو 1989 لرئيس الانقلاب ، و التي طالبت بالحريات النقابية وشرعية النقابات ، وفي إضراب الأطباء في نوفمبر 1989 وإضرابات العاملين بالسكة حديد في 1990 و1991. ورغم القوانين…
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Manifesto Arabic IQ 2018-01-17 إعلان تحالف سائرون — كلمتا رائد فهمي وحسن العاقولي (Sairoon Alliance launch declaration, 2018)
كلمة الرفيق رائد فهمي في اعلان التحالف … تحالف "سائرون" .. يحمل مشروعا وطنيا للتغيير والأصلاح الحقيقي، ويهدف إلى تصحيح مسار العملية السياسية، ومغادرة نهج الطائفية السياسية والمحاصصة. إن رسالة مشروع سائرون هي إخراج البلاد من دوامة الأزمات والصراع على مغانم السلطة والنفوذ، عبر بناء دولة المواطنة الديمقراطية المدنية،…
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Manifesto Arabic IL 2018-01-01 Charter of the Southern Islamic Movement (the document guiding Ra'am) (English translation of Arabic original)
"The State of Israel was born of the racist, occupying Zionist project; iniquitous Western and British imperialism; and the debasement and feebleness of the Arab and Islamic [nations]. We do not absolve ourselves, the Palestinian people, of our responsibility and our failure to confront this project," the charter…
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Interview Other MR 2017-12-28 Biram Dah Abeid — 'La loi fondamentale sacralise un code négrier' (Le Point Afrique interview, 28 December 2017)
En 2017 et en 2018, qui commence, environ 20 % des Noirs mauritaniens sont possédés par des citoyens mauritaniens arabo-berbères, le plus légalement du monde. La version locale de la charia islamique légalise, légitime et sacralise cette pratique. Ce corpus est inscrit dans la Constitution et considéré comme la…
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Press release Arabic BH 2017-11-27 تصريح الأمين العام لجمعية المنبر الوطني الإسلامي — مراجعة برنامج العمل (Al-Menbar SG programmatic statement)
عقدت الأمانة العامة لجمعية المنبر الوطني الإسلامي ورشة عمل لأعضائها لمناقشة إمكانية مراجعة برنامج عمل الجمعية ومدى مواكبته للتطورات والمستجدات التي تشهدها الساحة المحلية والخارجية . وأوضح الدكتورعلي أن الآوانة الأخيرة شهدت هزات اقتصادية عنيفة بسبب انخفاض أسعار البترول الأمر الذي أثر سلباً على الخدمات المعيشية للمواطن…
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Speech Arabic LB 2017-11-04 Tier 2 Saad Hariri — March-14 Sunni leader on Saudi-detention silence + Assad-as-monster (2012-2019)
From Saad Hariri (b. 1970, son of assassinated Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri; leader of the Future Movement, the dominant Sunni Muslim political party in Lebanon; Prime Minister 2009-2011 and 2016-2020, presiding over the October-2019 mass protests that toppled his second premiership): **December 2012** (after Syria…
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Interview English SA 2017-10-14 Mohammed bin Salman — sourced verbatim quotes 2016-2022 (mosaic of policy statements from major interviews; English)
Speaker: Mohammed bin Salman, then Deputy Crown Prince and later Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Mosaic of sourced verbatim quotes assembled from major published interviews 2016-2022. All quotes cross-verified against the Wikiquote-cited primary sources. [On Saudi modernization — Guardian interview, 24 October…
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Speech English JO 2017-09-21 Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II address to the 72nd UN General Assembly, 21 Sep 2017 — youth generation, on behalf of King Abdullah II
In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Distinguished Heads of Delegation, Your Excellencies, I am honored today to speak on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah II and the people of Jordan. Two years ago, I had the chance to advocate on behalf of my generation,…
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Speech English PS 2017-09-20 President Mahmoud Abbas address to the 72nd UN General Assembly, 20 Sep 2017 — the 'draining the swamp of colonial occupation' speech (English translation of Arabic original)
Mr. President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Twenty-four years have passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords, an interim agreement that set a five-year period for bringing an end to the Israeli occupation, granting hope to…
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Speech English QA 2017-09-19 Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani address to the 72nd UN General Assembly, 19 Sep 2017 — the Qatar-blockade response speech (English translation of Arabic original)
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, Honorable Audience, [… protocol elided…] Mr. President, Maintaining the regional and international peace and security is a priority in the State of Qatar's foreign policy, whose principles and objectives are based on the United Nations Charter and the rules of…
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Manifesto English IL 2017-09-07 Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan, 2017 (English translation of Hebrew original)
Executive Summary Ending the conflict means creating and cementing the awareness—practically and politically—that there is room for only one expression of national self-determination west of the Jordan River: that of the Jewish nation. Subsequently, an Arab State actualizing Arab national aspirations cannot emerge…
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Article Hebrew IL 2017-09-07 Bezalel Smotrich — 'Israel's Decisive Plan' (Hashiloach, 2017; English translation of Hebrew original)
The "two-state" model has led Israel to a dead end. It has brought a sense of despair of ending the conflict, and a turn to "managing" it as a cruel and eternal decree of fate. The alternative to this is a new readiness of Israeli society to win the conflict, rather than merely managing it—a victory founded on the…
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Article Hebrew IL 2017-09-01 תוכנית ההכרעה: המפתח לשלום נמצא בימין (The Decisive Plan) — Bezalel Smotrich's programmatic essay (the Religious Zionist Party line)
מודל "שתי המדינות" הביא את ישראל למבוי סתום: ייאוש מאפשרויות סיום הסכסוך ופנייה ל"ניהול" שלו כגזרת-גורל אכזרית ונצחית. האלטרנטיבה תלויה בנכונות של החברה הישראלית להגיע להכרעה במקום לנהל את הסכסוךהכרעה שעיקרה ההבנה שאין מקום בארץ ישראל לשתי תנועות לאומיות סותרות. את הזהות הלאומית אין לנו יומרה למחוק או לשנות; אבל את…
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Manifesto Arabic YE 2017-08-13 مبادئ وأهداف وأسس بناء المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي (Principles, Goals & Foundations of the Southern Transitional Council)
أولاً: المبادئ: يتأسس المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي ويمارس نشاطه في سبيل تحقيق أهدافه وفق الآتي: 1)الجنوب العربي ــ بحدوده الدولية المتعارف عليها بـ(جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية) قبل 22 مايو 1990م ــ وطنٌ وهويةٌ وطنيةٌ جامعةٌ لكل أبنائه بمختلف شرائحهم وأطيافهم وانتماءاتهم السياسية والاجتماعية والثقافية، وغيرها، دون…
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Interview English IL 2017-08-09 Tier 2 Ayman Odeh interview, Fathom: 'change is impossible without us', 2017
[Q: What is your vision for the future of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel?] Ayman Odeh: That there should be peace based on two states along the 1967 borders with very good relations between them, and that following the establishment of a Palestinian state there should be peace between Israel and all the Arab…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2017-07-24 Ammar al-Hakim's founding keynote launching Tayyar al-Hikma al-Watani (National Wisdom Movement), 24 Jul 2017 (Arabic original, via Rudaw)
اعلن رئيس المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي، عمار الحكيم، اليوم الإثنين، انسحابه من قيادة المجلس وتشكيل حزب جديد بإسم "تيار الحكمة الوطني"، مشيرا الى ان تياره الجديد يعتمد على الدماء الشابة. وقال الحكيم في كلمة متلفزة نقلتها شبكة رووداو الإعلامية، ان "نشكر اخوتنا في المجلس الاعلى الاسلامي لتحملهم معنا في السراء واضراء ونعلن…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 2017-05-01 Hamas — “A Document of General Principles and Policies” (the 2017 revised charter), presented by Khaled Meshaal, Doha, 1 May 2017 (Hamas's official English text)
Preamble: Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people […]. Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project that was founded on a false promise (the Balfour Declaration) […]. Palestine symbolizes the resistance that shall continue until liberation is accomplished […]…
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Manifesto English PS 2017-05-01 Hamas — 2017 'Document of General Principles and Policies' (Zionism-not-Jews distinction, formula-of-national-consensus 1967-borders)
From the Hamas Document of General Principles and Policies (Wathiqat al-Mabadi' al-Amma wa-al-Siyasat al-Amma li-Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah — Hamas), issued at a press conference in Doha 1 May 2017 by then-Hamas chairman Khaled Meshaal as a 42-article doctrinal-update from the foundational 1988 Hamas Covenant…
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Arabic PS 2017-05-01 Tier 2 Hamas 2017 Document of General Principles and Policies (English translation of Arabic original)
18. The following are considered null and void: the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate Document, the UN Palestine Partition Resolution, and whatever resolutions and measures that derive from them or are similar to them. The establishment of "Israel" is entirely illegal and contravenes the inalienable rights of…
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Speech Arabic SA 2017-03-05 Tier 3 Loujain al-Hathloul — Saudi women's-rights activist statements ("I will win. Not immediately, but definitely.")
From Loujain al-Hathloul (b. 1989, Saudi women's-rights activist, the primary public face of the campaign to lift the ban on women driving; first detained December 2014 for driving from the UAE into Saudi Arabia; arrested in the mass crackdown of 15 May 2018 — weeks before the formal lifting of the driving ban on 24…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2017-01-01 حزب الاستقلال — القيم والمرجعية الإيديولوجية والثوابت (Istiqlal Party doctrine: values, ideological reference & constants)
القيم والمرجعية الإيديولوجية ترتكز المرجعية الإيديولوجية لحزب الاستقلال على خيار ثالث هو "التعادلية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية"، الذي يروم ضمان تكافؤ الفرص و إقرار العدالة الاجتماعية وإرساء تنمية مستديمة منصفة ومتوازنة وتحسين مستوى عيش المواطنين والحد من الفوارق الاجتماعية والمجالية. وترتكز التعادلية على القيم الإسلامية…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2016-10-07 Tier 1 البرنامج الانتخابي لحزب العدالة والتنمية (2016) — المرجعية الإسلامية: مرجعية الدولة والمجتمع
لا يعتبر حزب العدالة والتنمية نفسه متميزاً عن أي طرف سياسي باختياره الانطلاق من المرجعية الإسلامية، فهذا اختيار أصيل وحضاري للدولة والمجتمع، تعبر عنه المقتضيات الدستورية التي تبوأ الدين الإسلامي مكانة الصدارة في الهوية المغربية، والوظيفة الدينية للملك باعتباره أميراً للمؤمنين وحامي حمى الملة والدين والضامن لحرية…
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Speech Arabic EG 2016-09-20 Tier 2 Sisi 2016 UN General Assembly address (71st session)
وفى وسط تلك التحديات التي يموج بها النظام الدولي، استطاع شعب مصر أن يفرض إرادته لتحقيق الاستقرار وحماية الدولة ومؤسساتها بل وتحصين المجتمع من التشرذم والانزلاق نحو الفوضى؛ فأقر دستوراً جديداً يحمى الحقوق والحريات، التي شملها الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان، حيث كفل الدستور المساواة في الحقوق على أساس المواطنة، ورسخ…
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English TN 2016-08-19 Tier 2 From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy — Rached Ghannouchi (Foreign Affairs, 2016)
Ennahda has moved beyond its origins as an Islamist party and has fully embraced a new identity as a party of Muslim democrats. It has ended all of its cultural and religious activities and now focuses only on politics. Tunisia's new constitution, ratified in 2014, enshrines democracy and protects political and…
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Manifesto Arabic TN 2016-08-13 النظام الأساسي للحزب الدستوري الحر — التوطئة + الأهداف (Free Destourian Party Basic Statute — preamble + objectives)
توطئة من باب الوفاء للدستوريين الذين قادوا معارك التحرير الوطنية وخاضوا أهم الملاحم التاريخية التي سارعت بهزم المستعمر وتحقيق الاستقلال ومن منطلق الإيمان بان زعماء الحركة الوطنية وعلى رأسهم الزعيم الراحل الحبيب بورقيبة خلفوا أجيالا متعاقبة من التونسيين المؤمنين بقيم الجمهورية وثوابت الوطنية ، نقر النظام الأساسي التالي…
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Interview Arabic MA 2014-10-27 Abdelilah Benkirane (PJD) — interview, “I have not come to change religious beliefs but to solve problems” (Asharq al-Awsat), 27 October 2014 (English translation of Arabic)
When I was appointed as prime minister by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, I felt that I was an official responsible for running the public affairs of all Moroccans rather than a prophet with a special message. I am just a state official; I may be right and I might make mistakes while addressing people's…
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Press release Arabic IQ 2014-06-13 Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani — the al-jihad al-kifa'i (collective-duty defense) fatwa against ISIS, read by Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, Karbala, 13 June 2014 (Arabic original)
إن العراق وشعبه يواجه تحدياً كبيراً وخطراً عظيماً وإن الارهابيين لا يهدفون إلى السيطرة على بعض المحافظات كنينوى وصلاح الدين فقط بل صرحوا بأنهم يستهدفون جميع المحافظات ولا سيما بغداد وكربلاء المقدسة والنجف الأشرف ، فهم يستهدفون كل العراقيين ، ومن هنا فإن مسؤولية التصدي لهم ومقاتلتهم هي مسؤولية الجميع ولا يختص بطائفةٍ…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2014-06-13 Tier 2 Grand Ayatollah Sistani fatwa for defensive jihad against ISIS, Karbala Friday prayers, 13 Jun 2014 (English translation of Arabic original)
Speaker (by proxy): Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shia marja' (religious authority) in Najaf. Location: announced through his representative Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbalai during Friday prayer sermons in Karbala. Date: 13 June 2014, three days after ISIS captured Mosul. The single core sentence of the…
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Bill Arabic EG 2014-01-18 Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt (2014, amended 2019) — the charter of the Sisi-era order
Egypt's 2014 Constitution, adopted by referendum on 14-15 January 2014 (in force on 18 January 2014) after the July 2013 removal of President Mohamed Morsi, replaced the 2012 Muslim-Brotherhood-era charter and became the foundational text of the Sisi-era order. It keeps a religious frame while barring religious…
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Party platform Arabic MA 2014-01-01 حزب الأصالة والمعاصرة — المرجعية السياسية: الديمقراطية الاجتماعية المنفتحة (PAM political reference: Open Social Democracy)
Authenticity and Modernity Party
المرجعية السياسية للحزب — تقديم عام (د. أبو الغالي) لقد شكل المؤتمر الاستثنائي لحزب الأصالة والمعاصرة ، نقلة نوعية ، في مجال توضيح هوية الحزب ، وتدقيق المنطلقات النظرية التي نشتق منها فكرنا السياسي ، و اخترنا الديمقراطية الاجتماعية المنفتحة منهجا وأفقا لبناء الحداثة والديمقراطية ، وينطلق هذا الاختيار من فهمنا للأصالة…
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Bill Arabic EG 2013-11-24 Egypt's Protest Law — Law No. 107 of 2013 (public meetings, processions and peaceful demonstrations)
Egypt's Law No. 107 of 2013, ratified by interim president Adly Mansour on 24 November 2013 (with no parliament sitting), governs the post-2013 order that Sisi leads. It imposes a prior-notification regime: organizers must give the Interior Ministry written notice at least three working days before any gathering of…
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Manifesto Arabic MA 2013-10-05 الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية — النظام الأساسي: الأهداف والمبادئ (USFP Statutes: objectives & organizing principles)
Socialist Union of Popular Forces
الباب الثاني — الأهـداف المادة 3 يهدف الاتحاد الاشتراكي إلى العمل على صيانة الوحدة الترابية، وإرساء دعائم الدولة الوطنية على أساس المعايير الديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان المتعارف عليها دوليا، وبناء مجتمع اشتراكي ديمقراطي تقدميتحرري متضامن، تسوده قيم العدالة الاجتماعية والمساواة بين المواطنين. مجتمع حداثي، متطور، قادر على…
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Press release English BH 2013-02-01 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society — written evidence to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (Bahrain inquiry), February 2013
Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society
Al Wefaq National Islamic Society is Bahrain's largest opposition party. Al Wefaq is characterized as the moderate opposition force, looking to reform the current system to create a genuine constitutional monarchy and a democratic civil state. They call for the establishment of moderate democratic principles such as…
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Manifesto Other MR 2013-01-13 UFP — Déclaration de Politique générale (document d'orientation stratégique, IIIe Congrès, 2013)
L'Union des Forces de Progrès est porteuse d'un projet de société qui, tout en s'encrant dans les valeurs civilisationnelles les plus positives de la société mauritanienne, fait siens les principes de liberté, d'égalité et de justice sociale, et s'inscrit dans une dynamique d'invention d'une trame sociale nouvelle…
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Party platform Arabic LY 2013-01-01 التعريف بالحزب — حزب العدالة والبناء (Justice and Construction Party — Definition of the Party declaration of principles)
Justice and Construction Party
التعريف بالحزب حزب وطني مدني ذو مرجعية إسلامية، مفتوح العضوية لكل ليبي يؤمن بمطلقاته وأهدافه ويلتزم بنظمه ولوائحه، ويهدف إلى تحقيق طموحات أبناء الشعب الليبي في بناء مجتمع يقوم على العدالة والحرية والعيش الكريم لأبنائه دون تمييز. ينطلق الحزب في رؤيته للمشروع الوطني والعمل السياسي على ضرورة الارتكاز على الثوابت…
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Manifesto Arabic SY 2012-11-11 Syrian National Coalition — Mission Statement, Fundamental Principles & Political Framework (official English edition; Arabic-founded coalition)
Mission Statement: Because of the deep crisis in Syria, our country, and the struggle our people are facing, all political opposition factions and have come together in unity with the goal of overthrowing the Assad regime, ending the suffering of the Syrian people, and to make the transition towards a free and…
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Speech Arabic EG 2012-09-26 Tier 2 Morsi 2012 UN General Assembly address (67th session) (English translation of Arabic original)
The first issue which the world must exert all its efforts in resolving, on the basis of justice and dignity, is the Palestinian cause. Long decades have passed since the Palestinian People expressed their longing for restoring their full rights and for building their independent state, with Jerusalem as its capital.…
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Speech Arabic EG 2012-09-26 Mohamed Morsi — Address to the 67th UN General Assembly, 26 September 2012 (official English text)
Coming here today and addressing the General Assembly carry meanings reflected in the fact that I am the first Egyptian civilian President elected democratically and freely, following a great peaceful revolution hailed by the world. This revolution established a genuine legitimacy, through the efforts of all Egyptians…
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Article Arabic TN 2012-03-26 Tier 2 Ennahda's March 2012 decision to retain Article 1 of the 1959 constitution unchanged (rejecting sharia as a source of legislation in the new constitution), with leader Rached Ghannouchi framing it as "a victory for the democratic Muslim state" — Al-Masry Al-Youm, reporting the decision announced Mon 26 Mar 2012 (article 29 Mar 2012).
كانت حركة النهضة الإسلامية التي تقود الحكومة في تونس، أعلنت الإثنين أنها قررت الاحتفاظ بالفصل الأول من الدستور السابق كما ورد دون تغيير. نفى زعيم حركة النهضة التونسية راشد الغنوشي، أن يكون قرار الحركة الاحتفاظ بالفصل الأول من الدستور السابق دون تغيير، والذي ينص على أن «تونس دولة حرة، مستقلة، ذات سيادة، الإسلام دينها…
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Speech Arabic TN 2012-03-02 Rached Ghannouchi — “Secularism and the Relation between Religion and the State” (CSID lecture, Tunis), 2 March 2012 (English translation of Arabic original)
This leads us to ask the following question: are we in need of secularism in its procedural aspect? Perhaps the most important idea in the ensemble of these procedures is the idea of the state's neutrality i.e. towards religions and its abstention from interfering with people's consciences. […] In other words, the…
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Manifesto Arabic LY 2012-02-21 ميثاق تحالف القوى الوطنية (Charter of the National Forces Alliance)
ميثاق تحالف القوى الوطنية لإرساء دعائم الدّولة المدنيّة الدّيمقراطية … واستلهاماً لقيم العقيدة الإسلامية الوسطية السّمحاء والهوية اللّيبية المتجذّرة في أعماق التّاريخ، والمتميّزة بالتنوّع الثقافي في إطار وحدة الوطن. … وانطلاقاً من الإيمان بضرورة تبني الديمقراطية كآلية للتعايش بين الآراء المختلفة، وكأسلوب لإدارة…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2012-02-17 الرؤية وقضية الحزب — حزب القوات اللبنانية (Lebanese Forces — Vision & Cause)
حزب القوات اللبنانية نشأت القّوات اللبنانيّة من عزم شابات و شبان تختزن ذواتهم قرونا" من التراث النضاليّ، صنعه آباؤهم وأجدادهم في الذود عن الأرض والكرامة والحرية والسيادة والإستقلال. حملوا السلاح مرغمين، بعد أن سقطت الدولة في فخ الانقسام على ذاتها، وأضحت عاجزة عن القيام بأبسط واجباتها في الدفاع عن الارض، في وجه…
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Speech Arabic YE 2011-12-10 Tier 1 Tawakkol Karman Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 Dec 2011 (English translation of Arabic original)
In the name of God the Compassionate the Merciful! Your Majesties, Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished Committee of the Nobel Peace Prize, Arab spring and revolution youth in the arena of freedom and change, and all free people of the world: Peace upon you from the Nobel Peace rostrum! I have always believed…
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Speech Arabic YE 2011-12-10 Tawakkol Karman — Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2011)
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men. So, when women are treated unjustly and are deprived of their natural right in this…
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Speech Arabic YE 2011-12-10 Tawakkol Karman — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2011 (English translation of Arabic original)
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. [… …] The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. [… …] Peace…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-11-01 Tier 2 New Wafd Party — electoral programme: 'The Constants of the Wafd' (ثوابت الوفد), 2011
ثوابت الوفد: الإسلام دين الدولة ومبادئ الشريعه الإسلاميه هي المصدر الرئيسي للتشريع ولأصحاب الديانات السماويه الأخرى حق الإحتكام إلى شرائعهم في أحوالهم الشخصيه. المواطنه هي أساس الحقوق والواجبات. نرفض العلمانية التي تفصل بين الدين والدوله ونرفض الدولة الثيوقراطية التي تسمح بسيطرة رجال الدين على الحكم. الديمقراطية…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-11-01 برنامج حزب الوفد — ثوابت الوفد والبرنامج الانتخابي (New Wafd Party programme — 'Wafd Constants' + electoral programme)
ثوابت الوفد الإسلام دين الدولة ومبادئ الشريعه الإسلاميه هي المصدر الرئيسي للتشريع ولأصحاب الديانات السماويه الأخـرى حق الإحتكام إلى شرائعهم في أحوالهم الشخصيه وشئونهم الدينيه . الوحدة الوطنية هي صمام أمن وسلامة واستقرار البلاد .. والمواطنه هي أساس الحقوق والواجبات . نرفض العلمانية التي تفصل بين الدين والدوله و نرفض…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-11-01 New Wafd Party — electoral programme: 'The Constants of the Wafd' (ثوابت الوفد), 2011 (Arabic original)
على أساس واحد وميزان لا يختل كان الوفد و سيبقى حزب الوطنية المصرية والدستور وإستقلال الإرادة الوطنية. ثوابت الوفد الإسلام دين الدولة ومبادئ الشريعه الإسلاميه هي المصدر الرئيسي للتشريع ولأصحاب الديانات السماويه الأخـرى حق الإحتكام إلى شرائعهم في أحوالهم الشخصيه وشئونهم الدينيه. الوحدة الوطنية هي صمام أمن وسلامة…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-11-01 برنامج حزب المصريين الأحرار — الحريات والمواطنة ومفهوم الدولة المدنية (Free Egyptians Party programme — Liberties, Citizenship & the Civil State)
أولاً: الحريات والعدالة والمواطنة: يرى حزب المصريين الأحرار أن مصر جديرة بنظام حكم مدني يعتمد على المواطنة التي تساوي بين المواطنين جميعاً وتصون حقوق كل فرد، ويؤمن الحزب بأن الدين لله والوطن للجميع، وهو لا يرى بديلاً عن الديمقراطية كمنهاج سياسي، وأن تكون جميع المناصب العامة، من العمد والمجالس المحلية والمحافظين،…
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Bill Hebrew IL 2011-07-11 Israel's Anti-Boycott Law — “Law for Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott, 5771-2011”
Enacted by the Knesset on 11 July 2011, the law (§1) defines a boycott against the State of Israel as 'deliberately refraining from economic, cultural or academic ties with another person or body solely because of its connection with the State of Israel, one of its institutions or an area under its control' in a…
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Bill Arabic MA 2011-07-01 Constitution of the Kingdom of Morocco (2011) — granted by King Mohammed VI after the February 20 protests
The reform constitution King Mohammed VI granted in response to the February 20 (Arab Spring) protest movement, approved by referendum on 1 July 2011. It redefines Morocco as 'a constitutional, democratic, parliamentary and social Monarchy' (Art. 1) and expands the rights chapter, including equality of men and women…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-06-01 FJP 2011 parliamentary election program
First: Characteristics of the state: The State envisaged in our program is the national constitutional Islamic modern democracy, based on Sharia (Islamic law) as a frame of reference. By its nature, Sharia nurtures aspects of faith, worship and morality, and also regulates various aspects of life for Muslims and their…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-05-31 حزب النور — برنامج الحزب (الهوية، السياسي، الاقتصادي، الخارجي، الاجتماعي) (Al-Nour Party — Salafi party programme)
الثقافة والهوية — هدف البرنامج قضية الهوية قضية محورية لابد من الاهتمام بها والتركيز عليها، لأنها هي التي تشخص ذات الأمة وتميزها، وهي السمة الجوهرية العامة لثقافتنا، ويهدف الحزب إلى إقامة دولة عصرية حضارية متقدمة تجمع بين الأصالة والمعاصرة، ذات رسالة حضارية راقية ترفع قيمة الأخلاق والفضيلة والقيم النبيلة. فإذا كانت…
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English PS 2011-05-16 Tier 2 Mahmoud Abbas, 'The Long Overdue Palestinian State' (NYT op-ed), 16 May 2011
Palestine's admission to the United Nations would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice. Our quest…
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Speech Arabic SY 2011-03-30 Bashar al-Assad — speech to the People's Assembly as the uprising began (30 March 2011)
I am sure you all know that Syria is facing a great conspiracy whose tentacles extend to some nearby countries and far-away countries, with some inside the country. […] Today, there is a new fashion which they call "revolutions". We do not call them so because we think this is mostly a popular condition. They mixed…
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Manifesto Arabic TN 2011-03-20 البيان التأسيسي لحركة الشعب الوحدوية التقدمية (Founding Declaration of the Unionist Progressive People's Movement — the Nasserist current of حركة الشعب)
بيان تأسيسي … حركة الشّعب الوحدويّة التقدميّة امتداد لنضالات خاضتها جماهير الشعب العربي في تونس تعبيرا عن تجذّرها في عمقها العربي و تجسّد للوعي العربي بوحدة مصير الأمّة وبضرورة تحريرها من واقع التخلّف والاضطهاد والاستعمار وتجاوزها لطارئ الإقليميّة والتجزئة و من أجل تحقيق كرامة الإنسان العربي وحقّه في حياة مدنيّة تضمن…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2011-03-01 مبادئ الحزب المصري الديمقراطي الاجتماعي (Egyptian Social Democratic Party — Statement of Principles)
Egyptian Social Democratic Party
العدالة الاجتماعية التي ننشدها هي التي تعمل على تصحيح الخلل الاجتماعي الذي يجعل الفقراء يزدادون فقرا وعددا، ويمنع الحراك الاجتماعي، ويحرم المواطن من الحد الأدنى من العيش الكريم. لذلك فإن مفهومنا للعدالة الاجتماعية لا يكتفي بتقديم الإعانات والمسكنات للفقراء بهدف إحتواء التوتر الاجتماعي، وإنما ينهض على بناء شبكة متكاملة…
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Party platform English IQ 2010-12-18 Tier 1 About KDP — party definition, principles & goals (National / Patriotic / Regional)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a democratic and patriotic party who believes in human rights, social justice and individual freedom. The party believes in the Kurdish and other nations' right to self determination through democratic and peaceful means, benefiting from Mustafa Barzani's patriotic legacy. National…
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Speech English IL 2010-09-28 Tier 2 Avigdor Lieberman UN General Assembly address (65th session), 28 Sep 2010
We are ready for a fair solution and we are ready to cooperate with the international community. However, we are not ready to compromise our national security or the vital interests of the State of Israel. At the outset, I want to emphasize that contrary to what is often shown in the international media, the…
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Party platform Arabic JO 2010-07-16 Tier 3 البرنامج السياسي للحزب الشيوعي الأردني (المؤتمر الخامس، 2010)
الحزب الشيوعي الأردني هو حزب الطبقة العاملة والفلاحين وسائر الكادحين. يستند الحزب في نشاطه إلى النظرية الماركسية اللينينية الخلاقة، ويستلهم منهجها العلمي المادي الجدلي، وأهدافه في النضال من أجل العدالة الاجتماعية على طريق بناء الاشتراكية. إرساء دعائم الديمقراطية وضمان حرية التعبير والرأي وحرية التنظيم الحزبي والنقابي…
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Party platform Arabic JO 2010-07-16 البرنامج السياسي للحزب الشيوعي الأردني (أقرّه المؤتمر الخامس، 2010) — Jordanian Communist Party political programme
الحزب الشيوعي الاردني هو حزب الطبقة العاملة والفلاحين وسائر الكادحين من صغار الكسبة والمثقفين الديمقراطيين والعاملين بسواعدهم وادمغتهم من الفئات التي تعاني من الاستغلال الطبقي. … يستند الحزب في نشاطه الى النظرية الماركسية اللينينية الخلاقة، ويستلهم في قضايا الفكر والتحليل السياسي منهجها العلمي المادي الجدلي… … ولئن…
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Manifesto English LB 2009-11-30 Hezbollah — 2009 Manifesto + Nasrallah supplementary (Zionism-as-occupiers-not-Jews-as-religion, Israel-as-cancer-to-be-eradicated)
From Hezbollah's 2009 Political Manifesto (released 30 November 2009 by then-Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut as a doctrinal update from Hezbollah's 1985 Open Letter — the 2009 Manifesto is the foundational document of Hezbollah's post-Cedar-Revolution political positioning): 2009 Political Manifesto…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2009-11-30 Tier 2 Hezbollah 2009 Political Manifesto (English translation of Arabic original)
The Resistance role is a national necessity as long as the "Israeli" threats and aspirations persist. The "Israeli" threat urges Lebanon to approve a defensive strategy that depends on a popular resistance participating in defending the country and an army that maintains the security of the country. The adoption of…
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Speech English IL 2009-06-14 Tier 2 Netanyahu Bar-Ilan University address, 14 June 2009 (English translation of Hebrew original)
I have already stressed the first principle - recognition. Palestinians must clearly and unambiguously recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people. The second principle is: demilitarization. The territory under Palestinian control must be demilitarized with ironclad security provisions for Israel. Without these…
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Manifesto Arabic SD 2009-03-01 دستور حزب الأمة القومي (1945 المعدل 2009) — المبادئ والأهداف (Constitution of the National Umma Party — Principles & Objectives)
المبادئ والأهداف والوسائل يستهدى الحزب بالمبادئ الآتية :- أ- الديمقراطية والمؤسسية. ب- المواطنة كأساس للحقوق والواجبات. ج- كفالة الحريات والحقوق الأساسية للمواطنين وإقامة وتأمين حكم ديمقراطي ينبذ العنف ويعزز ويؤكد مبدأ التداول السلمي للسلطة. د- الالتزام بحقوق الإنسان المضمنة في المواثيق الأساسية والمعاهدات…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2009-01-01 Tier 1 מצע חד"ש (Hadash / DFPE party platform) — core text for the Hadash–Ta'al joint list
חד"ש היא תנועה יהודית-ערבית בעלת ניסיון עשיר בשדה המאבק המדיני והחברתי. לחד"ש שותפים המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית, התחברות-תראבוט, חזיתות מקומיות, חוגי ציבור ואישים יהודים וערבים. נמשיך לפעול לשלום קבע, המבוסס על כינון מדינה פלסטינית, שבירתה ירושלים המזרחית, בצד מדינת ישראל; להגנת זכויות העובדים ולמען תעסוקה למובטלים;…
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Party platform Arabic BH 2008-11-17 جمعية الأصالة الإسلامية — "عن الجمعية" + مطلب إنشاء اللجنة العليا لتطبيق الشريعة الإسلامية (Al-Asalah Islamic Society self-definition + flagship sharia plank)
عن الجمعية الأصالة الإسلامية جمعية سياسية تأسست بمملكة البحرين في 06/05/2002 . ثم وفقت أوضاعها بموجب قانون رقم (26) بشأن الجمعيات السياسية في عام 2005م. وتمثل الأصالة شريحة كبيرة من البحرينيين المؤمنين بأن إصلاح المجتمع والدولة يتم بالرجوع لكتاب الله عز وجل وسنة النبي . وهي تعمل من أجل تحقيق هذا الهدف فضلاً عن النهوض…
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Manifesto Arabic SD 2008-09-19 النظام الأساسي لحزب المؤتمر الوطني — الفصل الثاني: المبادئ والأهداف (NCP Basic Statute — Ch. 2: Principles & Objectives)
يسعى المؤتمر إلى تحقيق المبادئ والأهداف التالية : أ . إقرار الحاكمية في الدولة لله يسعى الإنسان فيها مُستخلفاً عبادة لله ، وحملاً للأمانة ، وعمارة للوطن ، وبسطاً للتدين والعدل والحرية والشورى في المجتمع ، وإرساءً للتشريع على مبادئ الشرع الحنيف وإجماع الأمة وأعرافها . ب. العمل على توجيه الحياة العامة والخاصة لعبادة…
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English LB 2007-09-03 Tier 1 Charter of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM official English charter, 2007)
THE PRINCIPLES The Free Patriotic Movement declares its belief that the individual is a value in himself, that people are born and die equal and that they live with rights, freedom and dignity, and they have the right to have different opinions, orientations and beliefs. Its commitment to the World Declaration of…
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Manifesto Arabic MR 2007-08-03 الرؤية المرجعية لحزب التجمع الوطني للإصلاح والتنمية (تواصل) — Tawassoul founding Reference Vision
National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul)
1- المرجعية الإسلامية: … فإننا في التجمع الوطني للإصلاح والتنمية (تواصل) لا نواجه مثل هذا الإشكال، فالإسلام مرجع معتمد دستوريا وأهليا، ويمثل مرتكز هوية هذا الشعب بمختلف مكوناته وأعراقه وتوجهاته السياسية. … ومن خصائص الإسلام الوسطية التي هي مقصد شرعي ومبدأ أخلاقي أصيل… 3- الحرية: … على هذه الأرضية نقف ومنها ننطلق في…
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Interview English IL 2007-02-28 Tier 2 Balad doctrine — MK Jamal Zahalka interview, 'A State of all its Citizens', Feb 2007
Balad is [a] national democratic party defined by two political positions. One is the demand that Israel be a state of all its citizens, as opposed to Israel's self-definition as a Jewish state, and two is cultural autonomy for Palestinians inside Israel. Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that…
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Speech Arabic LB 2006-09-22 Hassan Nasrallah — 2006 "Divine Victory" rally speech, Beirut (post-July War) (English translation of Arabic)
This is not a Shi'i weapon [...] and the Christians. This weapon is for the Sunni, Druze, and Shi'i. This weapon is for all the Lebanese. It seeks to protect Lebanon, its sovereignty and independence. The army and the Resistance are two dear, loving brothers that no one can separate. Building a strong, just, and…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2006-07-26 Nouri al-Maliki — Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, 26 July 2006 (official English record)
I know that some of you here question whether Iraq is part of the war on terror. Let me be very clear. This is a battle between true Islam, for which a person's liberty and rights constitute essential cornerstones, and terrorism which wraps itself in a fake Islamic cloak […]. The truth is that terrorism has no…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2006-03-28 מסמך עקרונות תנועת ש"ס — ש"ס לצדק חברתי (Shas Movement Principles Document, 2006)
מסמך עקרונות תנועת ש"ס מסמך עקרונות התנועה ש"ס – לצדק חברתי תנועת ש"ס הציבה שתי מטרות מרכזיות להחזיר עטרה ליושנה קידום הצדק החברתי • תנועת ש"ס מאמינה בקיומה של מדינת ישראל כמדינת העם היהודי, מדינה מושתתת על ערכי הדמוקרטיה על פי תורת ישראל. • תנועת ש"ס שואפת לקבץ את כל נידחי ישראל מכל הגלויות, כדי לבנות בית יהודי…
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Press release Arabic LB 2006-02-06 FPM–Hezbollah Memorandum of Understanding (the Mar Mikhael Church document), 6 February 2006 (English translation of Arabic original)
Introduction: […] a joint memorandum of understanding between the FPM and Hezbollah was made public and read by Abu-Zeinab and Bassil. The following is the text of the memorandum dated February 6, 2006. 2 – Consensual Democracy: Consensual democracy remains the fundamental basis for governance in Lebanon, because it…
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Party platform English PS 2006-01-01 Tier 2 Hamas — 'Change and Reform' List 2006 electoral platform (English translation)
The Change and Reform List seeks to build an advanced Palestinian civil society based on political pluralism and the alternation of power, while bearing in mind the heavy occupation. Our Invariables: Islam and civilizational achievements constitute our frame of reference and way of life with all its political,…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2006-01-01 קדימה – עקרונות לתוכנית חברתית-כלכלית (Kadima — Principles for a Social-Economic Programme / Action Plan)
"קדימה" – עקרונות לתוכנית חברתית-כלכלית מבוא: יסודות חברתיים-כלכליים חזקים הם תנאי הכרחי לביטחון לאומי. … שוק פתוח ותחרותי הוא קריטי לשינוי מגמות אלו, אך אין פירושו של דבר ג'ונגל שבו אין כללים והחזקים טורפים את החלשים. הממשלה בראשות קדימה תבנה את התשתיות הפיזיות והאנושיות על מנת לגבור על הכשלים הקיימים בשוק. … הקטנת…
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Speech English EG 2005-12-10 Mohamed ElBaradei — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2005
A recent United Nations High-Level Panel identified five categories of threats that we face: 1. Poverty, Infectious Disease, and Environmental Degradation; 2. Armed Conflict – both within and among states; 3. Organized Crime; 4. Terrorism; and 5. Weapons of Mass Destruction. These are all ‘threats without borders’ –…
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Speech English EG 2005-12-10 Mohamed ElBaradei — Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2005)
I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. […] These are all 'threats without borders' – where traditional notions of national security have become obsolete. We cannot respond to these threats by building more walls, developing bigger weapons, or dispatching…
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Party platform Arabic LB 2005-09-08 Tier 1 Charter of the Progressive Socialist Party (ميثاق الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي) — creed and internal/foreign policy
من أجـل ذلـــك: · يتبنى الحزب الاختبار الإنساني التقدمي الكامل في حقول العلم والاجتماع والاقتصاد والسياسة، ومن ضمنها مبادىء الإشتراكية العالمية وبعض مستلزماتها العملية، في توزيع وسائل الملكية والإنتاج وفي إستثمارها بما يتفق مع مقتضيات الزمن وتطور الجماعة وحاجات كل البلد. […] إن قيام مثل هذا الاتحاد الديمقراطي الفدرالي…
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Manifesto Arabic SD 2005-09-01 ميثاق الحزب الاتحادي الديمقراطي — الأهداف (Charter of the Democratic Unionist Party — Objectives)
الأهداف :- 1. دعم وتعزيز وحدة السودان وجعل خيار الوحدة الطوعية هو الخيار الجاذب لكل أبناء الشعب السوداني . الاعتراف بالتعدد والتنوع الديني والاثنى واللغوي والثقافي والتاريخي في السودان واعتباره مصدر إثراء للحضارة السودانية لا ذريعة للاحتراب والتمزق والانغلاق . 2. مقاومة كل الأنظمة الشمولية عسكرية كانت أم مدنية بكافة…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2005-08-15 Tier 2 Ariel Sharon address to the nation on implementing the Gaza Disengagement, 15 Aug 2005 (English translation of Hebrew original)
Citizens of Israel, The day has arrived. We are beginning the most difficult and painful step of all — evacuating our communities from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria. This step is very difficult for me personally. It was with a heavy heart that the Government of Israel made the decision regarding Disengagement,…
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Party platform Arabic YE 2005-07-31 البرنامج السياسي للحزب الاشتراكي اليمني — المؤتمر العام الخامس (YSP Political Programme, 5th General Congress)
المدخـــل الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني هو حزب وطني ديمقراطي اجتماعي يناضل في الجمهورية اليمنية من أجل إزالة آثار حرب 1994، واصلاح مسار الوحدة والاصلاح الشامل للنظام السياسي من أجل الحفاظ على الوحدة والنظام الجمهوري وتعميق الديمقراطية، والدفع بعجلة الحداثة والتنمية وتحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية. يتمسك الحزب بتعاليم الدين…
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Manifesto Arabic SY 2004-12-16 المشروع السياسي لسورية المستقبل — رؤية جماعة الإخوان المسلمين في سورية (The Political Project for the Syria of the Future)
تنبثق رؤيتنا المستقبلية الحضارية لقطرنا العربي السوري ضمن منظومتيه العربية والإسلامية، من إيماننا المطلق بإسلامنا المتجدد والذي تتفاعل نصوصه وأصوله مع وقائع الحياة ومستجدياتها، في إطار من مقاصد الشريعة العامة… الثالث : رؤيتنا لبناء (الدولة الحديثة) في قطرنا العربي السوري، التي نعتبر بناءها مطلبا عامّاً لجميع أبناء…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2004-05-01 Tier 1 ماهية الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي (The Nature of the PSP) — Kamal Joumblatt's foundational doctrine
بماذا يوحي إلينا الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي؟ بأن الاشتراكية اللبنانية، على مستوى اقتصاد أمة ودون التمييز بين الطبقات، هي وحدها القادرة على حل مشكلة النزاعات بين الجماعات والطبقات. أهم مبادئ الحزب: تحقيق العدالة الإنسانية الفعلية؛ التعاون الوثيق مع الدول العربية التي تحترم مبادئه؛ علمنة الدولة واحترام حرية المعتقد في كافة…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2004-04-01 Tier 3 Muqtada al-Sadr — Iraqi Shia populist doctrinal mosaic (anti-occupation, Saddam-as-war-criminal, "freedom that satisfies God")
From Muqtada al-Sadr (b. 1973, Iraqi Shia cleric, leader of the Sadrist Movement and successor to his father Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, assassinated by the Saddam regime in 1999; led the Mahdi Army insurgency against the US occupation 2003-2008; later transitioned to electoral politics and won the largest…
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Press release English IQ 2003-11-29 Ali al-Sistani — supplementary: 2003 Bremer-exchange + elected-constitutional-council doctrine
From Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (b. 1930, Iranian-born Iraqi Shia marja al-taqlid based in Najaf; one of the four Maraji al-Taqlid (Sources of Emulation) for global Shia Islam; the dominant Shia religious authority in post-2003 Iraq; gave the foundational 2003 fatwas mandating Iraqi elections and rejecting…
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Manifesto Other TN 2003-07-28 Charte du Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) — extrait (identité, pouvoirs, politique extérieure)
Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD)
S'agissant du Changement, la Charte indique que le 7 Novembre a réalisé une mutation qualitative et créé une dynamique bénéfique au sein de la société. Le RCD œuvre à faire participer tous les Tunisiens à la réalisation du projet de société mis en œuvre par le Président Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. La Charte souligne que…
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Party platform English IL 2003-01-01 Shinui's Principles (the party's own published English statement of principles)
SHINUI is a democratic, secular, Liberal, Zionist, peace-seeking party. A Secular State — Shinui fights against religious coercion and for a secular state with room for all opinions and beliefs. Extortion and exploitation of the public treasury for religious purposes have to end. The ultra-Orthodox establishment is a…
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Party platform Arabic EG 2002-09-01 المبادئ الأساسية للحزب الوطني الديمقراطي ('الفكر الجديد') (NDP Basic Principles / 'New Thought')
حزب يفتح أبوابه لكل المواطنين على قاعدة المواطنة والهوية المصرية والمساواة الكاملة فى الحقوق والواجبات فى ا طار من الانتماء الحضارى للأمتين العربية والإسلامية . حزب يؤمن بالقيم الدينية وبدور الدين فى تحقيق التقدم ونهضة الشعوب . حزب يسعى لتأكيد المسيرة الديمقراطية وبالدور الفاعل للتعددية الحزبية ، وبدور النقابات…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 2002-06-17 نص المبادرة الوطنية الفلسطينية وبرنامجها — البيان التأسيسي (Palestinian National Initiative / al-Mubadara — founding declaration & program)
لقد برهن الشعب الفلسطيني على قدرته الكفاحية، وصموده البطولي في مقاومة الاحتلال، ونضاله من أجل الحرية والاستقلال. … وقد آن الأوان لتفعيل طاقات شعبنا وتنظيمها للوصول إلى أهدافنا في تحقيق السلام العادل بإنهاء الاحتلال والاستيطان وإقامة الدولة الفلسطينية الديمقراطية المستقلة وكاملة السيادة بعاصمتها القدس، على كامل الأراضي…
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Interview Arabic IL 2002-04-15 حوار مع الشيخ رائد صلاح — المجتمع العصامي والمفاصلة التامة (Northern Islamic Movement — Raed Salah programmatic interview)
نحن الأصل: … نحن نعمل في إطار الحركة الإسلامية لفلسطينيي 48 ومن خلال هذه الحركة نسعي إلي تعميق قيم الإسلام في نفوس المسلمين, ثم خدمة الجماهير الفلسطينية ـ بغض النظر عن تعدداتها الدينية والسياسية ـ ونهتم بشكل خاص بقضية القدس الشريف والأقصي المبارك ، مع إصرارنا الأبدي أننا جزء من شعب فلسطين والعالم العربي والأمة…
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English PS 2002-01-16 Tier 1 Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The lack of Israeli security is born of the lack of Palestinian freedom. We Palestinians have recognized Israel on 78 percent of historic Palestine. It is Israel that refuses to acknowledge…
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Article English PS 2002-01-16 Marwan Barghouti — "Want Security? End the Occupation" (Washington Post op-ed, 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Israelis must abandon the myth that it is possible to have peace and occupation at the same time, that peaceful coexistence is possible between slave and master. The lack of Israeli security…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2001-01-17 Saddam Hussein — Address on the 10th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War (the “Mother of All Battles”), 17 January 2001 (official Iraqi-government English translation of Arabic)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate Great people, […] Arabs, […] Peace be with you and Allah's Mercy and Blessings! On a day like this day in the year 1991, a marvel happened on both sides of an encounter. […] At that time […] Evil and all those who made Satan their protector lined up in one place,…
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Interview Arabic LB 2001-01-01 Tier 2 Rafik Hariri — Lebanese Sunni PM doctrinal mosaic (Hezbollah-as-resistance defense, Syria-protector framing, BBC 2001)
From Rafik Hariri (1944-2005, Lebanese Sunni politician and business magnate; founder of the Future Movement; Prime Minister 1992-1998 and 2000-2004; architect of post-civil-war Beirut reconstruction through Solidere; assassinated by a truck bomb on Beirut's waterfront on 14 February 2005, triggering the Cedar…
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Party platform Arabic EG 1999-10-01 حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي — البرنامج العام: بناء مجتمع المشاركة الشعبية (Tagammu / NPUP general programme, 1999)
… فقد شهدت مصر منذ تأسيس التجمع نضالاً جماهيرياً متصلاً ابتداء من الانتفاضة الشعبية فى يناير 1977 إلى إضرابات العمال والطلاب وتحركات الفلاحين الجماعية. مقاومة النقابات المهنية للعدوان على استقلالها أو محاولات الحد من دروها الوطني والديمقراطي، والمظاهرات والمسيرات والمؤتمرات الشعبية من أجل القضايا الديمقراطية والوطنية…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 1999-01-01 Tier 2 Likud Party electoral platform, 1999 (English translation of Hebrew original)
The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel. The Kingdom of Jordan is a desirable partner in the permanent status arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians in matters that will be agreed upon. The Jordan Valley and the territories that dominate it shall be under Israeli…
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Manifesto Arabic DZ 1997-02-21 التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي — المبادئ الأساسية (من القانون الأساسي)
المبادئ الأساسية للحزب التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي المؤسس على مبادئ وأهداف بيان فاتح نوفمبر 1954، هو تنظيم سياسي وطني، يعبر عن ضمير الأمة ، ويستجيب لطموحات المواطنين والمواطنات الأحرار، متفتح لا يدعي الإحتكار، ولا يسلك الإقصاء ، لا يتنكر لإنتماء الأمة الحضاري، ولا يذوب في أوعية الغير غير منغلق على نفسه ، يناضل من أجل…
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Party platform Arabic IL 1996-01-01 الحركة العربية للتغيير — مبادئ الحركة (Ta'al / Arab Movement for Renewal — Movement Principles)
الحركة العربية للتغيير تلتزم "الحركة العربية للتغيير" بقيم عليا وتعمل على ترسيخها ونشرها في مجتمعات العالم العربي بأسره أساسها حقوق الإنسان والمواطن والديمقراطية وحرية الحركة والعمل السياسي المبني على أساس احترام مبدأ الرأي والرأي الأخر. وعليه فأن "الحركة العربية للتغيير" تنادي الأنظمة العربية بنشر الديمقراطية…
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Speech Hebrew IL 1995-10-05 Tier 2 Yitzhak Rabin's address to the Knesset on the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (Oslo II), 5 Oct 1995 (English translation of Hebrew original)
We are striving for a permanent solution to the unending bloody conflict between us and the Palestinians and the Arab states. In the framework of the permanent solution, we aspire to reach, first and foremost, the State of Israel as a Jewish state, at least 80% of whose citizens will be, and are, Jews. At the same…
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Speech Hebrew IL 1994-12-10 Yitzhak Rabin — Nobel Peace Prize lecture (1994)
At the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle so that I could defend myself – and also, unfortunately, so that I could kill in an hour of danger. That was not my dream. […] However, I was compelled to resort to the gun. The leaders of nations must provide their peoples with the conditions – the 'infrastructure',…
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Speech English IL 1994-12-10 Yitzhak Rabin — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 1994
There is only one radical means of sanctifying human lives. Not armored plating, or tanks, or planes, or concrete fortifications. The one radical solution is peace. [… …] To preserve the Sanctity of Life, we must sometimes risk it. Sometimes there is no other way to defend our citizens than to fight for their lives,…
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Speech Arabic PS 1994-12-10 Yasser Arafat — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 1994 (English translation of Arabic original)
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren, to that comprehensive, just and lasting peace, based on “land for peace” and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions. [… …] Peace is in our interest: as only in an atmosphere of just…
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Article English PS 1993-09-13 Oslo Accords — Israel-PLO mutual recognition & the Declaration of Principles (September 1993)
In an exchange of letters dated 9 September 1993, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that "The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security," accepted UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and declared that "the PLO renounces the use of…
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Party platform Arabic TN 1992-01-01 برنامج حزب العمال الشيوعي التونسي (Programme of the Tunisian Communist Workers' Party / PCOT, 1992)
على المستوى السياسي: إقامة الجمهورية الديمقراطية الشعبية على أنقاض الدولة الاستعمارية الجديدة. تحقق الجمهورية الديمقراطية الشعبية الاستقلال الكامل والفعلي لتونس والسيادة للشعب. ويضمن دستورها: 2 ـ حرية المعتقد والتعبير والصحافة والتنظيم والإجتماع والإضراب والتظاهر والنقل والإبداع الفني والعلمي. 4 ـ المساواة الكاملة…
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Manifesto Arabic JO 1991-06-09 الميثاق الوطني الأردني — الثوابت (Jordanian National Charter, 1991 — constitutional constants)
… وان هذا التوافق الوطني يعتبر انجازا حضاريا متقدما، ومشروعا مستقبليا شاملا تتحدد ملامحه ومرتكزاته من خلال الاسس والحقائق والثوابت التالية: اولا : نظام الحكم في المملكة الاردنية الهاشمية نيابي ملكي وراثي ، والتزام الجميع بالشرعية واحترام الدستور نصا وروحا هو تمكين لوحدة الشعب والقيادة . ثانيا : الشعب الاردني جزء من…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 1991-01-01 The political-religious doctrine of Kach / Meir Kahane — 'a Torah state' and the ger toshav status of non-Jews (English edition, from 'The Jewish Idea')
G-d established the Jewish People as a holy nation, chosen, treasured and lofty, His select anointed. Their task was to accept the yoke of His kingdom, sanctify His name on earth as Supreme King … G-d, therefore, established for His holy nation a holy land. It would be a vessel to house the Jewish People and their…
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Manifesto Arabic YE 1990-09-13 البيان الأساسي لحزب التجمع اليمني للإصلاح (Basic Statement / founding charter of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, al-Islah)
Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)
الفصل الثالث : المنطلقات مادة (3): ينطلق ( الإصلاح ) في كافة أنشطته وأهدافه ووسائله من المبادئ التالية : 1- الإسلام عقيدة وشريعة، عقيدة ينبثق منها تصور شامل للكون والإنسان والحياة، وشريعة تنظم الحياة بمختلف مجالاتها. 2- كتاب الله تعالى وسنة رسوله ـ صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ـ أصل الشرعية و المشروعية، وكل ما يخالفهما…
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Party platform Arabic YE 1990-09-13 Yemeni Congregation for Reform (al-Islah) — Basic/Founding Statement (البيان الأساسي), 13 September 1990 (Arabic original)
Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)
الفصل الثالث : المنطلقات مادة (3): ينطلق ( الإصلاح ) في كافة أنشطته وأهدافه ووسائله من المبادئ التالية : 1- الإسلام عقيدة وشريعة، عقيدة ينبثق منها تصور شامل للكون والإنسان والحياة، وشريعة تنظم الحياة بمختلف مجالاتها. 2- كتاب الله تعالى وسنة رسوله أصل الشرعية و المشروعية، وكل ما يخالفهما باطل ومردود. 3- الديمقراطية…
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Manifesto Other DZ 1990-06-29 La Charte du Parti des Travailleurs (Algérie) — founding charter, 1990
Le Parti des Travailleurs a été fondé en 1990 par des travailleurs, syndicalistes, petits paysans, jeunes à l'initiative de l'Organisation Socialiste des Travailleurs, sur une ligne de classe partant de la contradiction majeure entre les intérêts des travailleurs et couches populaires exploités et opprimés et ceux des…
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Party platform Arabic DZ 1990-04-20 Tier 2 اللائحة السياسية للجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ لدى رئيس الجمهورية (أفريل 1990)
ترفع الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ لدى رئيس الجمهورية لائحتها المتضمنة القضايا المصيرية التالية: تحديد مجالات الإصلاح واقتراح رزنامة زمنية لمراحله؛ حل المجلس الشعبي الوطني بقرار من رئيس الجمهورية؛ تكوين هيئة سياسية مستقلة من مختلف الأحزاب لمراقبة الإدارة والمجلس الدستوري لضمان سلامة الانتخابات البلدية والولائية والتشريعية؛…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1988-11-15 Palestinian Declaration of Independence (the Algiers Declaration), 15 November 1988 (English translation of Arabic)
Despite the historical injustice done to the Palestinian Arab people in its displacement and in being deprived of the right to self-determination following the adoption of General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 1947, which partitioned Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish State, that resolution nevertheless continues…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1988-08-18 Hamas Covenant, 18 August 1988 — The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (English translation of Arabic original)
In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). [… …] This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its…
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Manifesto English PS 1988-08-18 Hamas — 1988 Covenant doctrinal mosaic — Islamic Waqf, jihad-as-individual-duty, anti-negotiation foundational text
From the Hamas Covenant (Mithaq Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah — Hamas), published 18 August 1988, foundational charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement: On the land of Palestine: 'Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations.' On negotiation and peace initiatives: 'Initiatives, and…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 1985-02-16 Hezbollah — 'An Open Letter: The Hizballah Program' (16 February 1985; English translation of Arabic original)
OUR IDENTITY We are often asked: Who are we, the Hizballah, and what is our identity? We are the sons of the umma (Muslim community) - the party of God (Hizb Allah) the vanguard of which was made victorious by God in Iran. There the vanguard succeeded to lay down the bases of a Muslim state which plays a central role…
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Manifesto Arabic YE 1982-08-24 الميثاق الوطني — الباب الثاني: الإنسان والوطن (GPC National Charter, Book Two: Man and Nation)
الباب الثاني — الإنسان والوطن أ- الولاء الوطني: الولاء الوطني مبدأ شريف، لا ينسجم بأي حال من الأحوال مع التبعية، أياً كان شكلها أو نوعها. ففي ظل الولاء الوطني، يتمكن الشعب من التفاعل والتلاحم الطبيعيين، انطلاقاً من تمسكه بأهداف الثورة اليمنية، ومن شعوره بالانتماء إلى وحدة اجتماعية متماسكة، متميزة بالعقيدة…
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Speech English EG 1978-12-10 Anwar al-Sadat — Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, 10 December 1978 (read by Sayed Marei on Sadat's behalf)
First, the true essence of peace which ensures its stability and durability, is justice. Any peace not built on justice and on the recognition of the rights of the peoples, would be a structure of sand which would crumble under the first blow. The peace process comprises a beginning and steps towards an end […]. That…
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Press release English EG 1978-09-17 Camp David Accords — “A Framework for Peace in the Middle East” (Sadat–Begin–Carter), 17 September 1978
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, met with Jimmy Carter [… …] at Camp David from September 5 to September 17, 1978, and have agreed on the following framework for peace in the Middle East. The agreed basis for a peaceful settlement of the…
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Speech Arabic EG 1977-11-20 Tier 2 Sadat 1977 Knesset address (peace initiative)
وقبل أن أعلن جوابي، أرجو أن أؤكد لكم، أنني أعتمد، في هذا الجواب الواضح الصريح، على حقائق عدة، لا مهرب لأحد من الاعتراف بها: الحقيقة الأولى، إنه لا سعادة لأحد على حساب شقاء الآخرين. الحقيقة الثانية، إنني لم أتحدث ولن أتحدث بلُغَتَيْن، ولم أتعامل ولن أتعامل بسياستَيْن. ولست أتعامل مع أحدٍ، إلاّ بلُغة واحدة، وسياسة…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 1977-05-01 Tier 2 Likud Party original platform, 1977 (English translation of Hebrew original)
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan…
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Arabic LB 1976-01-01 Tier 1 ميثاق حركة المحرومين (Charter of the Movement of the Deprived) — founding charter of the Amal Movement
البعد الأول – الإيمان بالله: إن حركة المحرومين تنطلق من الإيمان بالله، كما تعتمد على أساس الإيمان بالإنسان بوجوده وحريته وكرامته. البعد الثالث – الحرية ومحاربة الظلم: تؤمن بالحرية الكاملة للمواطن، وتحارب كافة أنواع الظلم من استبداد وإقطاع وتسلط، وتعتبر أن نظام الطائفية السياسية في لبنان لم يعط ثماره، وهو الآن يمنع…
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Manifesto Arabic LY 1975-01-01 Muammar Gaddafi — The Green Book, Part One: 'The Authority of the People' (1975; English translation of Arabic original)
The instrument of government is the prime political problem confronting human communities. […] All political systems in the world today are a product of the struggle for power between alternative instruments of government. This struggle may be peaceful or armed, as is evidenced among classes, sects, tribes, parties or…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1975-01-01 Political Program of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Central Committee, Fall 1975 (official English translation of Arabic original)
The Palestinian revolution is in its present historical phase a national-democratic revolution. Its strategic task is to achieve a radical democratic solution to the national question of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian national question is essentially the problem of the national fragmentation, and of the…
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Speech Arabic PS 1974-11-13 Tier 2 Arafat UN General Assembly address, 13 Nov 1974 (English translation of Arabic original)
Why therefore should I not dream and hope? For is not revolution the making real of dreams and hopes? So let us work together that my dream may be fulfilled, that I may return with my people out of exile, there in Palestine to live with this Jewish freedom-fighter and his partners, with this Arab priest and his…
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Speech Arabic LB 1974-03-17 Imam Musa al-Sadr — Baalbek address founding Harakat al-Mahrumin (the parent movement of Amal), 17 March 1974 (Arabic original)
ننتقل الى الرمل العالي وبرج البراجنة، الى ضواحي بيروت، ألا تستحي أيها المسؤول أن يكون على بُعد كيلومترات منك مثل هذه البيوت التي لا تُسكن؟ ويسألون لماذا ننفجر ولماذا نغضب؟ في شوارع بيروت 1200 طفل متشرد: 1100 منهم من الشيعة، هل يقبل الحسين؟ هل يقبل علي أن يكون أبناؤه مشردين؟.. إنّ الظلم تجاوز كل حد، وحادثة كربلاء ليست…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1969-02-01 PFLP — "Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine": Who Are Our Enemies? (1969)
Who, then, are our enemies? Political thinking behind any revolution commences by posing this question and replying to it. Admittedly, the masses of our Palestinian people have not yet answered this in a clear, specific and conclusive manner. Without a clear definition of the enemy, a clear view of the battle becomes…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1969-02-01 PFLP — Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP Second Congress, February 1969; official English edition of the Arabic original)
This then is the enemy camp which we are really facing in our battle for the liberation of Palestine. We cannot win this battle without a clear sight of all parties in this camp. In the light of the definition of these parties and our perception of the connections which bind them together, it becomes clear that our…
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Manifesto Arabic PS 1968-07-17 The Palestinian National Charter — Resolutions of the Palestine National Council, 1–17 July 1968 (English translation of Arabic original)
Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation. Article 8: The phase in their history, through which the Palestinian people are now living, is that of national (watani) struggle for…
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Speech Arabic SA 1965-03-28 Tier 3 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia — "Palestine more valuable than oil" doctrine + "our constitution is the Quran" (1964-1975)
From King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975, third king of Saudi Arabia 2 November 1964 — 25 March 1975; assassinated by his nephew Prince Faisal bin Musaid in Riyadh 25 March 1975; led Saudi Arabia through the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the 1973 oil embargo against the US and other states…
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Arabic PS 1964-01-01 Tier 2 Fatah Constitution (Principles, Goals, Method), 1960s (English translation of Arabic original)
Article (7) The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method. Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism. Article (9) Liberating Palestine…
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Manifesto Other DZ 1963-09-29 Proclamation du Front des Forces Socialistes (29 septembre 1963) — FFS founding declaration
Les deux mascarades électorales ont clarifié la situation politique et fait apparaître l'opposition d'un homme assoiffé de pouvoir aux traditions révolutionnaires et démocratiques de notre peuple, d'une minorité d'usurpateurs à la majorité des citoyens, d'un clan à la nation, d'un groupe d'inconditionnels à l'ensemble…
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Manifesto Arabic EG 1962-05-21 الميثاق الوطني (ميثاق العمل الوطني) — الباب السادس: في حتمية الحل الاشتراكي (Nasser's National Charter, Ch. 6: the inevitability of the socialist solution)
إن نمو الاحتكارات العالمية الضخم لم يترك إلا سبيلين للرأسمالية المحلية فى البلاد المتطلعة إلى التقدم: أولهما: أنها لم تعد تقدر على المنافسة إلا من وراء أسوار الحمايات الجمركية العالمية، التى تدفعها الجماهير. والثانى: أن الأمل الوحيد لها فى النمو هو أن تربط نفسها بحركة الاحتكارات العالمية، وتقتفى أثرها، وتتحول إلى…
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Manifesto Other DZ 1954-11-01 FLN — Proclamation of 1 November 1954 (founding charter of the Algerian revolution)
To you who are called upon to judge us, the Algerian people in a general way, the militants more particularly, our purpose in distributing this proclamation is to enlighten you concerning the profound reasons which have impelled us to act by revealing to you our program, the meaning of our action, and the cogency of…
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Speech Hebrew IL 1950-08-16 נאום בפתיחת ועידת מפא"י (David Ben-Gurion — opening keynote to the Mapai conference, 1950)
גם בימי ההתחלות המיצערות והדלות של תנועתנו, זה כיובל שנים, נשאנו ברמה ובאמונה דגל הגאולה המלאה והשלמה, היהודית והאנושית, דגל הציונות הסוציאליסטית. בעשרות שנים אלה עברנו כברת ארץ לא קטנה. וזכינו לגדולות ולנצורות. עם כינון מדינת־ישראל בוּצע השלב הראשון במהפכה הלאומית והסוציאלית אשר בישԂרנו והכשרנו בואה. מדינת־ישראל…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 1948-05-14 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (1948)
ERETZ-ISRAEL [the Land of Israel] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. On the 29th November,…
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Hebrew IL 1948-05-14 Tier 2 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948 (English translation of Hebrew original)
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE…
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Manifesto Arabic IQ 1947-04-06 دستور حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي (Constitution of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party — Aflaq founding constitution; Arabic original)
المبدأ الأول: وحدة الأمة العربية وحريتها العرب أمة واحدة لها حقها الطبيعي في أن تحيا في دولة واحدة وأن تكون حرة في توجيه مقدراتها.. ولهذا فإن حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي يعتبر: 1- الوطن العربي وحدة سياسية اقتصادية لا تتجزأ ولا يمكن لأي قطر من الأقطار العربية أن يستكمل شروط حياته منعزلاً عن الآخر. 2- الأمة العربية وحدة…
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English SY 1947-01-01 Tier 1 Constitution of the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party (1947) — Fundamental, General and Economic Principles
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. First Principle — Unity and Liberty: The Arabs are One Nation, which has its natural right to live under One State. The Arab Homeland is an indivisible political and economic entity. Second Principle — Character: The freedom of Speech, Assembly, Belief and Art are holy and no authority can…
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Other MA 1944-01-11 Tier 2 Manifesto of Independence of Morocco (Manifeste de l'Indépendance), 11 January 1944
Considérant que le Maroc a toujours constitué un État libre et souverain, et qu'il a conservé son indépendance pendant treize siècles jusqu'au moment où un régime de protectorat lui a été imposé; que ce régime a empêché les Marocains de participer au gouvernement de leur pays et les a privés de toutes les libertés…
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Manifesto Hebrew IL 1929-01-01 Ra'ayon Betar — The Ideology of Betar, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky (English translation of Hebrew original; the founding doctrine Herut adopted)
2. THE JEWISH STATE The basis of the Betarian viewpoint consists of one idea: the Jewish State. … For this purpose, every nation must possess its own "laboratory", a country wherein the nation alone is master and can freely suit the common life in accordance with its own conception of good and evil. A people's own…