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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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English IL 2026-06-09 Tier 2 Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism MK; Constitution Committee chair; architect of the 2023 judicial overhaul) — his Tablet op-ed "Why I Refuse to Stop Fighting for Judicial Reform": the majoritarian case — "A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives canceled by a court citing a document approved by 32… is not democracy."
Laws passed by overwhelming Knesset majorities—80 members, 90 members, representing the clear will of the Israeli public—were struck down by unelected judges based on their own broad interpretation of basic laws that were themselves passed by as few as 32 Knesset members. A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives…
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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 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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Press release English IL 2026-03-11 Tier 2 Yuli Edelstein (Likud MK; ex-chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; ex-Soviet "Prisoner of Zion") — statement (Times of Israel, 11 Mar 2026) after the Haredi draft-exemption bill was shelved: vowing to "widen the IDF's recruitment base until we pass a real, historic enlistment law… and lighten the burden on people who show up to serve." The draft-equality / equal-burden pole on the security-right.
Together, we'll keep striving to widen the IDF's recruitment base until we pass a real, historic enlistment law that will truly answer to the needs of the military, and lighten the burden on people who show up to serve time after time.
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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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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 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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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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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 English IL 2025-05-30 Tier 2 Israel Katz (Israel's Defense Minister; senior Likud) — statement at the re-established Sa-Nur settlement, 30 May 2025 (Times of Israel), rebuking Macron's Palestinian-state recognition: "They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper — and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground… thrown in the trash can of history," announcing 21 new West Bank settlements. The mainstream secular-nationalist Likud right.
They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper — and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground. The paper will be thrown in the trash can of history and the State of Israel will flourish and prosper. I promised then that we would return and today we have returned here, with the decision to re-establish…
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Speech English IL 2025-03-06 Tier 2 Nir Barkat (Israel's Economy Minister; ex-Jerusalem mayor; tech entrepreneur; Likud) — European Parliament address on import reforms (per JNS, Mar 2025): free-market liberalization to cut the cost of living ("What is good for Europe is good for Israel") and an "economic peace" vision ("Palestinians should decide: Do they want the West Bank to become Dubai, or another Gaza?"). The economic-liberal / free-market Likud pole.
What is good for Europe is good for Israel. Palestinians should decide: Do they want the West Bank to become Dubai, or another Gaza?
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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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Interview English IL 2024-11-28 Tier 2 Ofer Cassif (Jewish anti-Zionist MK for Hadash; only Jewish member of Israel's Arab-majority bloc) — Tribune interview, Nov 2024: "I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs," indicting Israel for "genocide, ethnic cleansing… occupation" and "fascism growing stronger." The radical anti-Zionist Jewish-left pole.
I decided that my way should be the socialist, humanist one rather than the Zionist one, that it wasn't enough not to be a Zionist, but that I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs. This is the situation in Israel — alongside genocide,…
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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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Speech English IL 2024-06-09 Tier 2 Benny Gantz (ex-IDF chief; National Unity leader; centrist challenger) — resigning from Israel's wartime emergency government, 9 Jun 2024 (Times of Israel): "Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory… we are leaving the emergency government today," and demanding elections: "I call on Netanyahu: Set an agreed election date." [Second doc — distinct domestic-governance / anti-Netanyahu axis.]
Unfortunately, Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory… we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy heart but wholeheartedly. I call on Netanyahu: Set an agreed election date. Don't let our people be torn apart.
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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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Interview English IL 2024-01-18 Tier 2 Gadi Eisenkot (former IDF chief of staff; war-cabinet observer; National Unity MK) — Israeli-TV interview, Jan 2024 (per CNN): prioritizing the hostages over "total victory" — "for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy" — and candidly admitting "a strategic achievement was not reached… we did not demolish the Hamas organization."
There's no dilemma: for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy. A strategic achievement was not reached … We did not demolish the Hamas organization.
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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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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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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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Press release English IL 2023-06-23 Tier 2 Orit Strock (Religious Zionism MK; Israel's Minister of Settlements & National Missions) — public statement (~June 2023, per FMEP's translation) celebrating settlement expansion after the Eli-junction terror attack: building "1,000 more Jewish families… was the Zionist price tag for murdering Jews… there we will deepen our roots." The messianic religious-Zionist settler / Greater-Israel pole.
1,000 more Jewish families in the place where Jewish lives were cut short. Every terrorist must know that this was the Zionist price tag for murdering Jews. In the place from where they try to uproot us – there we will deepen our roots. Not instead of eliminating the terrorists, not instead of the checkpoints, and not…
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Interview English IL 2023-06-17 Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — interview via The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 2023: warning that without a two-state solution Israel risks apartheid comparison — "We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime… of South Africa" — and that "this government doesn't want to make peace."
We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime that led the civilized world to boycott South Africa. This government doesn't want to make peace. It won't make any effort to make peace.
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Interview English IL 2023-06-08 Tier 2 Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; feminist, Zionist-left) — interview with The Forward during a 2023 US visit (8 Jun 2023): calls reviving liberal Zionism "the future of Israel," likens Netanyahu's politics to Trumpism, and vows to defend Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul.
The future of Israel depends on its going back to the Zionist vision,” she said during a recent visit to the U.S. “And our side of the political map must rebuild its political power, build the infrastructure that it doesn’t have today to reach people’s hearts and minds. I think post 2016, Americans should realize…
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Press release English IL 2023-04-28 Tier 2 Avi Maoz (leader of the religious Noam party; ex-deputy minister for "Jewish national identity") — letter to party supporters (per Times of Israel, 28 Apr 2023) decrying the public prominence of a same-sex couple: opposing "a new public stance celebrating a new family model and harming our basic values as the nation of God and as a Jewish state." The anti-LGBT / religious social-conservative pole.
One cannot agree, including through silence or lack of protest, to audacious indoctrination that creates a new public stance celebrating a new family model and harming our basic values as the nation of God and as a Jewish state.
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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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Article English IL 2023-02-23 Tier 2 Religious Zionism's behavioral record in power: the Defense-Ministry memorandum transferring authority over most West Bank civil affairs (COGAT / Civil Administration — land, planning, 'state land' declarations, settlement 'legalization', the new 'Settlement Administration') to party leader Bezalel Smotrich as 'additional minister' — implementing, per Adalah, the Religious Zionist Party's "Israeli sovereignty" / de-facto-annexation agenda. Powers list documented verbatim by Adalah; transfer formalized Feb 2023 (coalition agreement Dec 2022); corroborated by The Washington Institute.
According to the memorandum, the Defense Minister will retain responsibility for military activities in the West Bank, while Smotrich will have authority over most civil matters. This includes directing policies for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and civil administration in key…
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Article English IL 2023-01-04 Tier 2 Likud behavioral democracy record — the 2023 judicial overhaul: the Likud-led government's plan (architected by Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin) to curb Supreme Court judicial review; PM Netanyahu (Likud) said it would "strengthen democracy," while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned it would "drastically undermine" the judiciary's check on executive and legislative power. Reported by JURIST (Feb 2023).
Specifically, Türk said that the proposals would limit the Israeli Supreme Court’s ability to perform judicial review of legislation and would require either a super majority or unanimity of judges for the court to overturn legislation. Netanyahu also dismissed Türk’s concerns and said the reforms would “strengthen…
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Speech English IL 2022-12-29 Tier 2 Amir Ohana (Likud; Knesset Speaker; Israel's first openly gay Speaker; ex-Justice & Public-Security Minister) — inaugural address as Speaker (per Times of Israel, 29 Dec 2022): as a gay man leading a right-religious coalition with anti-LGBT partners, vowing "This Knesset, under the leadership of this speaker, won't hurt them or any other family, period." The gay-right / nationalist-LGBT paradox pole.
This Knesset, under the leadership of this speaker, won't hurt them or any other family, period.
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Article English IL 2022-12-27 Tier 2 Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).
This morning, 27th December, Israel’s new coalition passed a bill that will allow parliament member Aryeh Deri, leader of the “Shas” faction in the Knesset, to be nominated as minister despite his recent criminal convictions of tax offenses. Now the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu has changed the relevant clause…
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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 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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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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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 English IL 2022-09-20 Tier 2 Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; Zionist-left) — 2022 campaign-launch remarks, 20 Sep 2022: "Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it" — the Zionist-left's two-state / end-the-conflict stance. [Second doc — distinct TWO-STATE / peace foreign-policy axis, vs her existing liberal-Zionism / pro-democracy doc.]
The next government must renew political discourse and stop hiding behind empty words like 'managing the conflict' or 'reducing the conflict.' Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it and love it, and we won't let it happen.
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Interview English IL 2022-09-05 Tier 2 Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; ex-Culture & Sport Minister) — Davar interview, Sep 2022: positioning herself as the voice of the periphery against the center/elite — "they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative" — and waging culture war on the Tel Aviv establishment: "I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel Aviv." The Likud populist-nationalist / Mizrahi-periphery / anti-elite pole.
You have to understand that in Israeli society, there are still very large gaps between the periphery and the center; There are people who don't have the opportunity and the tools to fight in an equal way, and they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative. I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel…
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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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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 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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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 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 — 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 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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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 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 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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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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Speech English IL 2019-05-27 Tier 2 Avigdor Lieberman (leader of Yisrael Beiteinu; secular-nationalist) — coalition-crisis statements, 27 May 2019: "We are in favor of a Jewish state, we are against a halachic state" — his anti-ultra-Orthodox-coercion / Haredi-draft-equality stand that forced Israel's first-ever repeat election. [Second doc — distinct SECULARISM / religion-state axis, vs his 2010 UN foreign-policy address.]
I want to emphasize yet again: We are in favor of a Jewish state, we are against a halachic [Jewish law] state. I agree it's not just the draft law. The draft law became a symbol… but look at what is happening here.
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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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Press release English IL 2018-10-21 Tier 2 Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; then Culture & Sport Minister) — official statement, 21 Oct 2018, on her "Culture Loyalty" bill: "preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel" — conditioning state arts funding on loyalty to the state. [Second doc — distinct CULTURE-WAR / free-expression / loyalty-in-culture axis, vs her existing Mizrahi periphery-populism doc.]
Freedom of expression is a guiding light for us and a central value in the life of the State of Israel as a democratic state, but preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel.
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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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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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Speech English IL 2018-07-19 Tier 2 Ahmad Tibi (Arab-Israeli MK; leader of Ta'al; ex-deputy Knesset speaker) — statement after the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law vote (per Vice): "I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy." The leading parliamentary voice of Israel's Palestinian-Arab citizens, demanding "a state of all its citizens."
I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy.
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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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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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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 2017-09-01 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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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 English IL 2016-05-04 Tier 2 Yair Golan (then IDF Deputy Chief of Staff; later a Labor/Democrats leader) — 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day address (per Times of Israel): warning that trends in Israel echo pre-Holocaust Europe — "finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016" — and of the ease of becoming "callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical." [Second doc — distinct moral-character / democratic-warning axis.]
If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016. There is nothing easier than hating the other. There is nothing easier than raising…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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…
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Interview English IL Tier 2 May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.
I can see here what's going on with Donald Trump. They're calling him racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. Well, this is the same thing in Israel. I think I, and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders.
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English IL Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — Haaretz opinion piece (per Ahram Online, 23 Jun 2026), among the harshest condemnations of the Gaza war by any senior Israeli figure: "It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes," calling the war the work of "the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu." [Second doc — distinct war-conduct axis.]
It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes. Never since its establishment has the State of Israel waged such a war… The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel's history in this area, too.
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Party platform English IL Tier 2 Hadash — Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (DFPE) — party peace platform (from its program; English version via Adalah): a Jewish-Arab socialist Left; full Israeli withdrawal to the June 1967 lines, evacuation of all settlements, a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel (two states for two peoples), the Golan returned to Syria. [Party platform — fills the previously 0-doc Hadash entry.]
The DFPE (HADASH in Hebrew) is a Jewish-Arab movement with rich and consistent experience in social and political struggles. […] 1. Evacuation of all the settlements and Israeli withdrawal from all the Palestinian territories conquered in the June 1967 war […] 2. Recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to…