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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…