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Party All Hamas 8 Hezbollah 7 Likud 5 Ba'ath Party (Syria) 4 Fatah 4 Islamic Action Front 3 Ansar Allah (Houthis) 3 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham 3 Justice and Development Party 3 New Wafd Party 3 Amal Movement 3 El Insaf (Equity Party) 2 Lebanese Forces 2 State of Law Coalition 2 Mostaqbal Watan 2 Religious Zionism Party 2 Shas 2 Meretz 2 Kataeb Party 2 National Rally of Independents 2 Noam 2 Istiqlal Party 2 Ennahda 2 Freedom and Justice Party 2 Jordanian Communist Party 2 Free Patriotic Movement 2 Progressive Socialist Party 2 Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) 2 PFLP 2 National Liberation Front 2 The Democrats 1 Yashar! 1 Yisrael Beiteinu 1 Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 1 Palestinian People's Party 1 United Torah Judaism 1 Israeli Labor Party 1 Yesh Atid 1 National Unity 1 Palestinian Islamic Jihad 1 New Hope 1 Otzma Yehudit 1 Long Live Tunisia 1 Movement of Society for Peace 1 Sudanese Communist Party 1 Sairoon Alliance 1 Ra'am (United Arab List) 1 Al-Menbar Islamic Society 1 Southern Transitional Council 1 National Wisdom Movement 1 Free Destourian Party 1 Authenticity and Modernity Party 1 Socialist Union of Popular Forces 1 Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society 1 Union of Forces of Progress 1 Justice and Construction Party 1 Syrian National Coalition 1 National Forces Alliance 1 Free Egyptians Party 1 Nour Party 1 People's Movement 1 Egyptian Social Democratic Party 1 Kurdistan Democratic Party 1 National Umma Party 1 Hadash-Ta'al 1 Islamic Asalah Society 1 National Congress Party 1 National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) 1 Balad 1 Kadima 1 Democratic Unionist Party 1 Yemeni Socialist Party 1 Muslim Brotherhood (Syria) 1 Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) 1 Shinui 1 National Democratic Party 1 Mubadara 1 Northern Islamic Movement 1 Tagammu Party 1 Democratic National Rally 1 Ta'al 1 Tunisian Workers Party 1 National Charter Party 1 Kach 1 Workers' Party 1 Islamic Salvation Front 1 General People's Congress 1 DFLP 1 Socialist Forces Front 1 Arab Socialist Union 1 Mapai 1 Ba'ath Party (Iraq) 1 Herut 1 Hadash 1

• Speech Arabic EG 2026-06-17 Tier 2

  Dr Mostafa Madbouly (Prime Minister of Egypt) — speech launching the 2nd edition of the State Ownership Policy Document ("Deepening Reform 2026–2030"), 17 Jun 2026 (Al-Watan): private-sector-led growth as the government's target — its share of investment, already past 56.5%, to exceed 65% before 2030, with the state stepping back.

  إن الرقم الذي عرضه علينا اليوم رئيس مركز المعلومات يؤكد أن القطاع الخاص بدأ يستعيد حضوره بقوة خلال السنوات الثلاث الماضية، حيث تجاوزت مساهمته 56.5% من إجمالي الاستثمارات، كما تشير التوقعات إلى إمكانية تجاوز المستهدف الذي وضعناه، والبالغ 65%، خلال العامين المقبلين على أقصى تقدير

• Speech Arabic LB 2026-05-22 Tier 1

  Mohammed Raad (head of Hezbollah's "Loyalty to the Resistance" parliamentary bloc) — appeal to "the people of the Resistance" (Al-Manar, post-2024 ceasefire): the resistance's weapon is "the real barrier preventing the entrenchment and hegemony of the occupation"; the fight is a "defensive" national duty; and neither an alliance with America nor normalization with Israel will protect the region's peoples and sovereignty.

  — سلاح المقاومة الذي تحرّكه هذه الإرادة، يشكّل المانع الحقيقي لتثبيت الاحتلال واستقراره وهيمنته — نحن وإياكم يا أهلنا نقوم بواجبنا الدفاعي الوطني والإنساني والأخلاقي، ضد العدو الصهيوني حفظًا وحمايةً لوجودنا وأرضنا ووطننا وشعبنا — لن يحمي شعوبها وسيادة دولها من الأطماع الصهيونية لا تحالفٌ مع أمريكا راعية الإرهاب…

• Speech English PS 2026-04-20 Tier 2

  Mohammad Mustafa (Prime Minister, Palestinian Authority) — remarks in Brussels with the EU's Kaja Kallas, ~20 Apr 2026 (The National): the PA's "one state, one government, one law and one gun" — a single national authority with a monopoly on arms, the gradual collection of weapons from all armed groups, full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and sovereignty as the basis for durable security.

  A key pillar of forced stabilisation in Gaza is a unified and comprehensive security framework," Mr Mustafa said. "This should be done through the implementation of the policy of one state, one government, one law and one gun, the gradual and responsible collection of arms from all armed groups, and also the full…

• Speech English MA 2026-04-18 Tier 2

  Aziz Akhannouch (Head of Government / PM of Morocco; RNI leader) — statement (Morocco World News, 18 Apr 2026) on the "social state" agenda: "The executive has never approached social dialogue as a circumstantial commitment, but as a clear political choice." The Moroccan social-state / development-model pole. [Second doc — distinct domestic social-policy axis, vs his Western-Sahara UNGA doc.]

  The executive has never approached social dialogue as a circumstantial commitment, but as a clear political choice.

• Speech Arabic EG 2026-04-02 Tier 2

  Sayed El-Badawi (leader of the Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party) — symposium speech (per Al-Bawaba News, 2 Apr 2026): the "loyal opposition" stance — "the Wafd is a liberal party that believes in economic freedom, and when we find the state moving… on a path that achieves the public good, then we support that"; and that development needs an independent judiciary and a free press.

  الوفد حزب ليبرالي يؤمن بالحرية الاقتصادية، وعندما نجد الدولة تسير من وجهة نظرنا في خط يحقق الصالح العام وقتها نكون مؤيدين لهذا الحق التنمية والإصلاح السياسي وجهان لعملة واحدة؛ فلكي تحدث التنمية لا بد من أن يكون لديك مؤسسات ماليه قويه وقضاء مستقل وإعلام حر

• Speech Arabic PS 2025-12-14 Tier 2

  Khalil al-Hayya (head of Hamas in Gaza; chief negotiator) — speech on Hamas's founding anniversary, 14 Dec 2025 (PNN, Arabic original): rejecting disarmament — the resistance and its weapons are "a legitimate right guaranteed by international law for all peoples under occupation, linked to the establishment of the Palestinian state"; Hamas rejects "all manifestations of guardianship and mandate over the Palestinians."

  — حق مشروع كفلته القوانين الدولية لكل الشعوب تحت الاحتلال ومرتبط بإقامة الدولة الفلسطينية — لدراسة أية مقترحات تحافظ على هذا الحق مع ضمان إقامة الدولة الفلسطينية المستقلة وتقرير المصير لشعبنا الفلسطيني — الرافض لكل مظاهر الوصاية والانتداب على الفلسطينيين

• Speech Arabic LB 2025-11-11 Tier 1

  Naim Qassem (Secretary-General, Hezbollah) — "Day of the Martyr" address, 11 Nov 2025 (full text on Hezbollah's Al-Manar): frames demands to disarm Hezbollah as escalating "pretexts" ultimately aimed at the movement's very existence, and calls on the Lebanese government to pursue national sovereignty while rejecting "American dictates."

  ما بقى نزع السلاح ذريعة، لأنه الآن طلعوا لنا بذريعة جديدة: «حزب الله يستعيد قدرته، يتسلّح من جديد، لا يسمحون باستعادة القدرة». حسناً، لا، هناك شيء آخر؟ «حزب الله يتموّل، حزب الله يحصل على المال، والمال يعطيه قوة». يعني ساعة ذريعة نزع السلاح، وساعة ذريعة استعادة القدرة، وساعة ذريعة وجود التمويل، وبعد شوي سيقولون:…

• Speech English IQ 2025-11-11 Tier 2

  Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — press conference on Iraq's parliamentary-election day, 11 Nov 2025 (Rudaw): Iraq must make a "serious effort" to implement the constitution (the KDP's central demand on Kurdistan's autonomy), and he hopes the vote ushers in "a democratic federal Iraq where all components get their rights."

  That constitution has not been implemented. Indeed, the most important thing to be done after these elections is to make a serious effort to implement the Iraqi Constitution, We hope that these elections are a new start for Iraq - a democratic federal Iraq where all components get their rights and achievements,

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech English SA 2025-07-28 Tier 2

  Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — press conference at the UN two-state conference, 28 Jul 2025 (per Middle East Monitor): "normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state" — Saudi recognition conditioned on Palestinian statehood and self-determination.

  for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state. That position remains the same and it is based on a strong conviction that only through the establishment of a Palestinian state and only through addressing the legitimate rights of the…

• 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…

• Speech English BH 2025-05-27 Tier 1

  Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Crown Prince & PM of Bahrain) — Bahrain's statement at the inaugural GCC–ASEAN–China Summit, Kuala Lumpur, 27 May 2025 (his official website): positioning Bahrain in a Gulf–Asia multilateral partnership built on trade, maritime security, and "the values of dialogue, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence." [Second doc — distinct multilateral-partnership / coexistence axis, vs his Gaza-war doc.]

  Through deeper partnership, we can advance even further—by securing vital maritime routes and trade corridors, combating terrorism and extremism, preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and fostering the values of dialogue, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence among our nations and cultures. This…

• Speech English LB 2025-04-26 Tier 2

  Samir Geagea (leader, Lebanese Forces) — statement, ~26 Apr 2025: "We cannot build a real state without the state's monopoly on arms" — his demand that Hezbollah disarm and that the state hold the sole monopoly on weapons. [Second doc — distinct STATE-MONOPOLY-ON-ARMS / Hezbollah-disarmament / sovereignty axis, vs his existing decentralization-and-democracy doc.]

  We've been missing a real state for 35 years. We cannot build a real state without the state's monopoly on arms.

• Speech Arabic JO 2025-04-23 Tier 2

  وائل السقا (الأمين العام لحزب جبهة العمل الإسلامي الأردني / الذراع السياسي للإخوان) — مؤتمر صحفي 23 أبريل 2025 (رؤيا) بعد حظر الحكومة لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين: الحزب مستقل وملتزم بالدستور والقانون الأردني وقرار الحظر "لا يعنيه". قطب المعارضة الإسلامية الموالية للنظام الدستوري.

  قرار الحكومة المتعلق بحظر النشاط السياسي لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين لا يعني الحزب. الجميع في الأردن خاضع للقانون.

• 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…

• Speech Arabic YE 2025-04-10 Tier 2

  Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (supreme leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah / the Houthi movement) — televised address reported by RT Arabic (~10 Apr 2025, amid the Gaza ceasefire collapse): calls for "jihad in the path of God against the Israeli and American enemy" as "the only way" to defend Palestinian rights, charges Israel with "genocide" under "open American support," and rejects surrender, concessions and political settlement.

  — الجهاد في سبيل الله ضد العدو الإسرائيلي والأمريكي — العدو الإسرائيلي، وبدعم أمريكي مفتوح، اتجه بشكل عدواني نحو إبادة جماعية ضد الشعب الفلسطيني في القطاع — لا تؤمن بالسلام ولا بالتسوية السياسية — الخيار الجهادي هو السبيل الوحيد للحفاظ على الحقوق الفلسطينية ومواجهة المؤامرات — الاستسلام لا يخدم أحدا، لا الفلسطينيين…

• 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…

• Speech English YE 2025-03-28 Tier 1

  Abdul-Malik al-Houthi — Al-Quds Platform (Quds Day) speech, 28 March 2025 (SABA English translation)

  Ansar Allah (Houthis)

  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…

• 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?

• Speech Arabic EG 2025-02-16 Tier 2

  Hanafy El-Gibaly (Speaker of Egypt's House of Representatives; ex-head of the Supreme Constitutional Court) — remarks via Extra News (per Sada El-Balad, 16 Feb 2025): Egypt's categorical rejection of displacing the Palestinians — a "danger of liquidating the Palestinian cause" and a "crime" — and parliament's affirmation of the historical support for "the Palestinian right."

  موقف مصر بوضوح هو رفض تهجير الفلسطينيين لما يمثله ذلك من خطر تصفية القضية الفلسطينية فضلا عن كونه جريمة تصفية خلال لقاءاتنا البرلمانية المختلفة نؤكد على الموقف التاريخي الثابت الداعم للحق الفلسطيني

• 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)

  Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

  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…

• Speech English QA 2025-01-15 Tier 1

  Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (Qatar's Prime Minister & Foreign Minister) — official statement announcing the Gaza ceasefire (Qatar MOFA, 15 Jan 2025): after "411 days" of mediation Qatar (with Egypt and the US) reached a ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel; "the responsibility now rests with the parties... to navigate toward the shores of peace."

  Since the successful mediation that halted the fighting in November and secured the release of 109 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, we have been working continuously to reach an agreement that halt the bloodshed of innocents, end the war, and restores hope for a secure future in our region, where we can…

• 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…

• Speech English LB 2025-01-09 Tier 2

  Joseph Aoun (President of Lebanon from Jan 2025; former army commander) — inaugural address, 9 Jan 2025 (L'Orient Today): making the state's monopoly on arms the centerpiece — "the state's right to hold a monopoly on weapons, and to invest in the army" — alongside a rule-of-law / anti-corruption vision ("no more mafias… no more immunity for criminals and the corrupt"). The reformist / state-sovereignty pole.

  …working to ensure the state's right to hold a monopoly on weapons, and to invest in the army to monitor the borders, maintain their security in the south, define the boundaries in the east, north and at sea. If we want to build a nation, we must all be under the roof of law and justice, where there will be no more…

• Speech English LB 2024-12-24 Tier 2

  Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi (Maronite Patriarch of Antioch) — Christmas speech, 24 Dec 2024 (per Naharnet): his "positive neutrality" doctrine — one army "instead of two armies," distancing Lebanon from wars and alliances, sovereignty and non-interference, Lebanon as a neutral meeting-place. (Implicitly against Hezbollah's arms and the Iran-led axis.)

  Lebanon must protect its sovereignty and defend itself against any occupier, without interfering in the affairs of other states. This neutrality enables Lebanon to play its active role as a place of meeting and dialogue between cultures and religions, and a defender of peace in the region.

• Speech Arabic MA 2024-12-21 Tier 2

  Driss Lachgar (First Secretary of Morocco's USFP — the Socialist Union of Popular Forces) — speech at the Socialist International conference, Rabat, 21 Dec 2024 (Al-Omk): social-democratic values of "justice, equality and human solidarity" as "effective tools for building a more balanced society and a more equitable world," and support for Palestinian self-determination and an independent state under international law.

  قيم العدالة والمساواة والتضامن الإنساني ليست فقط غايات نطمح إلى تحقيقها، بل أدوات فعالة لبناء مجتمع أكثر توازنًا وعالم أكثر إنصافًا إن الشعب الفلسطيني لا يطالب بأكثر من حقوقه الطبيعية التي تضمنها الشرعية الدولية، وفي مقدمتها الحق في تقرير المصير وإقامة دولته المستقلة

• 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…

• Speech Arabic MA 2024-10-26 Tier 2

  Abdelilah Benkirane (Secretary-General, PJD) — speech at a Casablanca rally marking one year since 7 October, late Oct 2024 (Hespress): the PJD "was never with normalization, and will never be," former PM El Othmani is the one who should apologize for signing, and "the PJD cannot sell the Palestinian cause." (The internal-party counterpart to the PJD's 2020 normalization divergence.)

  قال عبد الإله بنكيران، الأمين العام لحزب العدالة والتنمية، في تجمع خطابي لتخليد السنة الأولى على مرور “طوفان الأقصى”، إن حزبه “لم يكن يوما مع التطبيع، ولن يكون معه”. لقد سبق للحزب أن اعتذر عما حدث؛ بالرغم من أن سعد الدين العثماني، رئيس الحكومة السابق، من يجب أن يقدم الاعتذار؛ لأن ما قام به له ظروف يعلمها، وحزب…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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)

  Ba'ath Party (Syria)

  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…

• 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…

• 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)

  Ba'ath Party (Syria)

  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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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'…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech English YE 2024-09-20 Tier 2

  Mahdi al-Mashat (President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council; de facto head of state in Sanaa) — statement to Xinhua, 20 Sep 2024: the Houthi conditions for peace — paying salaries, opening Yemen's airports and ports, releasing all prisoners, compensation/reparations, and the complete withdrawal of all foreign powers from Yemen.

  The only solution to achieve peace is ... paying the salaries of Yemenis, opening Yemen's airports and ports, and releasing all prisoners. Among the requirements of peace are also the payment of compensation, redress for damages, and the complete withdrawal from the Republic of Yemen by all foreign powers.

• Speech English JO 2024-09-15 Tier 2

  Jafar Hassan (Prime Minister of Jordan, appointed 15 Sep 2024) — first statement as PM-designate (per Roya News): pledging to "translate the Letter of Designation [the King's directive] into clear programs" — the royal-mandate-technocrat model; his government's agenda centers on comprehensive economic, political and administrative modernisation.

  His Majesty tasked me today to form a new Cabinet. Public service is a great honor and responsibility, which we will carry on with all our capability to serve Jordan and Jordanians. We will translate the Letter of Designation into clear programs rooted in dedicated service.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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…

• Speech English LY 2023-12-24 Tier 2

  Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (PM, Libyan Government of National Unity) — remarks at the Tripoli Government Communication Forum (Libya Observer; undated in source, post-Sept-2023): his government "will not leave until elections are held," he backs elections under fair laws, and he "does not object to Saif Gaddafi's candidacy unless there are legal obstacles."

  The Head of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has reaffirmed that “his government will not leave until elections are held and the Libyan people choose who will lead them.” In his speech at the Tripoli Government Communication Forum, as part of the Tripoli Media Days, Dbeibah reaffirmed his…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic PS 2023-11-24 Tier 2

  Ziad al-Nakhalah (Secretary-General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad) — televised speech during the first Gaza truce, 24 Nov 2023 (full text via Al-Quds News): the enemy's captured officers/soldiers will not be released except by freeing ALL Palestinian prisoners, tied to ending the war ("everyone for everyone"). Supplies verbatim content for his previously-empty placeholder doc.

  ونحن ما زلنا عند موقفنا، لن يخرج باقي أسرى العدو من الضباط والجنود دون حرية كل أسرانا، وهذا مرتبط بنهاية العدوان، وليس قبل ذلك بأي حال من الأحوال. وامتدادًا لذلك، فإننا بصمود مقاتلينا، وقتالهم في الميدان، سنجبر العدو لاحقًا، إن شاء الله، على عملية تبادل كبرى، تضمن تحرير أسرانا جميعهم، تحت عنوان الجميع مقابل الجميع.

• Speech English BH 2023-11-18 Tier 2

  Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Crown Prince & PM of Bahrain) — remarks at the Manama Dialogue, Nov 2023 (Newsweek): condemning both Hamas's 7 October attack ("barbaric") and Israel's Gaza air campaign, insisting "no real security will ever be realized until a real two-state solution is found," and that "the United States is indispensable" to peace.

  The attacks on October 7 were barbaric. I unequivocally condemn the air campaign that resulted in the death of over 11,000 people in Gaza, 4,700 of which are children. No real security will ever be realized until a real two-state solution is found. So, preserving this path to peace, will demand strong leadership—from…

• 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…

• 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

  Ba'ath Party (Syria)

  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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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،…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic KW 2023-08-02 Tier 1

  Ahmad Al-Saadoun (veteran Speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly) — speech to the Assembly's budget session (Al-Dustour, the Assembly's official newspaper, 2 Aug 2023): reform and anti-corruption are the government's/PM's responsibility under Article 123 of the Constitution; the elected legislature presses the executive to deliver. The Kuwaiti parliamentary-oversight / anti-corruption pole.

  من يملك تنفيذ هذه التشريعات ومن يملك إدارة البلد وفق المادة 123 من الدستور هو الحكومة، وسمو رئيس مجلس الوزراء عليك مسؤولية من اليوم بألا تترك الأمور "تمشي" كما هي. دعوة الإصلاح بدأت في 22/6/2022 في الخطاب التاريخي لكن هذا الإصلاح يجب أن يستمر بإجراءات تنفيذية، نحن في السلطة التشريعية لن نألو جهدا والإخوان النواب…

• Speech English SA 2023-06-17 Tier 2

  Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — statement during his Tehran visit, ~17 Jun 2023 (post-rapprochement; per Gulf Research Center): Saudi–Iran cooperation on regional security, maritime-navigation security, and a region free of weapons of mass destruction. [Second doc — distinct SAUDI–IRAN DÉTENTE / regional-de-escalation axis, vs his existing Israel-normalization-conditionality doc.]

  I would like to refer to the importance of cooperation between the two countries on regional security, especially the security of maritime navigation, and the importance of cooperation among all regional countries to ensure that it is free of weapons of mass destruction.

• Speech Arabic PS 2023-06-02 Tier 2

  Mahmoud al-Aloul (deputy chairman of Fatah) — remarks during a visit to Barqa and al-Mughayyir, West Bank (per WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, 2 Jun 2023): Palestinians will confront settlement and occupation with "popular resistance in all its forms," removing settlement outposts on the path to liberation and a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital, and will work to implement international-legitimacy resolutions.

  وهو الأمر الذي لن يرضى أبناء شعبنا به، وسيواجهونه بالمقاومة الشعبية بكافة أشكالها، ضمن دفاعهم عن أنفسهم وإزالة البؤر الاستيطانية على طريق التحرير وإقامة الدولة الفلسطينية وعاصمتها القدس [أبناء شعبنا] لن يسمحوا له بالاستمرار في احتلاله، بل سيعملون على تطبيق قرارات الشرعية الدولية

• 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…

• 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.

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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)…

• 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…

• 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 -…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech English LY 2020-04-27 Tier 2

  Khalifa Haftar (commander, Libyan National Army) — televised speech of 27 April 2020 (Middle East Eye): claims a "popular mandate" for the armed forces to take over Libya's governance and unilaterally declares the 2015 UN-brokered Skhirat political agreement null and void. (Complements the Dbeibah doc — the rival eastern side of Libya's split.)

  In a televised speech on Monday night, the leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) announced that the General Command of the Armed Forces had "accepted the will of the people" to take over management of the country. "We announce our acceptance of the people's will and mandate and the end of the Skhirat Agreement,"…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic TN 2018-08-13 Tier 2

  Beji Caid Essebsi (President of Tunisia; founder of Nidaa Tounes) — National Women's Day speech, 13 Aug 2018 (per Al Bayan): proposing gender-equal inheritance as law — a historic break with Islamic-law inheritance — while pairing it with a pragmatic opt-out (testators may keep Sharia shares), embodying his secular, consensus-democracy model.

  نقترح أن تصبح المساواة في الميراث بين الرجل والمرأة قانونا لكن بما أن رئيس الدولة رئيس الجميع ومن واجبه التجميع أكثر من التفرقة نقترح أن المورث الذي يريد تطبيق القواعد الشرعية في ورثته له ذلك

• 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.

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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)

  National Wisdom Movement

  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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic YE 2016-05-21 Tier 2

  Ali Abdullah Saleh (President of Yemen 1978–2012; architect of Yemeni unity) — Yemeni Unity Day speech, 21 May 2016 (per Almrasil): celebrating the 1990 unification "whose flag rose high on 22 May 1990 in… Aden — that ended forever the two partition regimes… and reunited the Yemeni fold."

  الوحدة اليمنية التي ارتفع علمها شامخاً يوم الـ22من مايو عام 1990م في مدينة عدن الباسلة, والتي أنهت وإلى الأبد النظامين الشطريين اللذين كانا قائمان في شطري الوطن، ولمّت الشمل اليمني وأعادت للتاريخ إعتباره

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic DZ 2014-04-28 Tier 2

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika (President of Algeria) — 4th-term inaugural address, April 2014 (Ennahar, full text): national reconciliation as his priority (the hand "extended to Algeria's astray sons" to return home) coupled with stability-first and an iron hand against terrorism; the national identity of "Islam, Arabism and Amazighity."

  إن أول هذه الالتزامات هو العمل وإياكم على الحفاظ على استقرار البلاد، إن يد الجزائر ما تزال ممدودة لأبنائها الضالين الذين أجدّد لهم الدعوة للعودة إلى الديار. إن المصالحة الوطنية تبقى أولويتي، باسم الشعب الذي اعتنقها وتبناها. التمسك بثوابتنا الوطنية ومكونات هويتنا الوطنية من إسلام وعروبة وأمازيغية

• Speech Arabic EG 2013-07-05 Tier 2

  Mohamed Badie (General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood) — his Rabaa al-Adawiya address, ~5 July 2013: the famous declaration "our peacefulness is stronger than bullets," framing the Brotherhood's response to the coup as nonviolent resistance and calling the army back to its constitutional role (documented by Arabi21, with his verbatim slogan).

  بعد يومين من إعلان الانقلاب العسكري، اعتلى بديع منصة رابعة للمرة الأولي والأخيرة مُلقيا خطابا قويا ورآه البعض تاريخيا أعلن فيه قولته الشهيرة "سلميتنا أقوى من الرصاص"، لتُعبر عن استراتيجية الجماعة في هذه المرحلة، ومؤكدا على إصرار الجماعة على الحفاظ على الأرواح، داعيا الجيش المصري إلى العودة إلى حضن شعبه، وأن يعود إلى…

• 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…

• 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.…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech English LY 2011-02-20 Tier 2

  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Muammar Gaddafi's son & one-time heir; d. Feb 2026) — his 20 Feb 2011 televised address during the uprising (per Al-Monitor): warning that toppling the regime would fragment Libya — "All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country… everyone will want to be president, or emir." The Gaddafi-restorationist / strong-central-authority pole.

  All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country, because today, everyone will want to be president, or emir, and everybody will want to run the country.

• Speech Arabic EG 2011-02-10 Tier 2

  Hosni Mubarak (President of Egypt) — final televised address, 10 February 2011 (full text via Arabic Wikisource), during the 25 January revolution: "I never submitted to foreign pressure or dictates; I preserved peace; I worked for Egypt's security and stability"; rejecting "foreign dictates from abroad" and insisting Egyptians "take no one's instructions."

  لم أخضع يوما لضغوط أجنبية أو إملاءات، حافظت على السلام، عملت من أجل أمن مصر واستقرارها، اجتهدت من أجل نهضتها، لم أسع يوما لسلطة أو شعبية زائفة. سنثبت أننا لسنا أتباعا لأحد، ولا نأخذ تعليمات من أحد، وأن أحدا لا يصنع لنا قراراتنا سوى نبض الشارع ومطالب أبناء الوطن.

• Speech Arabic TN 2011-01-13 Tier 2

  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (President/dictator of Tunisia, 1987–2011) — his iconic line from his final televised address, 13 Jan 2011 (per Arab48): "I have understood you… yes, I have understood you" — the deposed strongman's desperate, last-minute concession to the revolution. He fled to Saudi Arabia the next day, the first Arab Spring dictator to fall.

  أنا فهمتكم.. نعم أنا فهمتكم

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech English SA 2008-03-24 Tier 2

  King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia — speech launching his interfaith-dialogue initiative, ~March 2008 (per AP): a call for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews, putting "the Quran, the Torah and the Bible" on common ground, with his senior clerics' backing. [Second doc — distinct INTERFAITH / religion-and-society axis, vs his Arab Peace Initiative doc.]

  That is an unacceptable behavior to all religions, to the Quran, the Torah and the Bible. We ask God to save humanity. There is a lack of ethics, loyalty and sincerity for our religions and humanity.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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’ –…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• Speech English SA 2002-03-28 Tier 1

  King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.

  Having heard the statement in which His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presented his Initiative and called for Israel’s full withdrawal from all the Arab territories that have been occupied since 1967, in implementation of Security Council resolutions 242…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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',…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Speech Arabic MA 1975-11-05 Tier 1

  King Hassan II of Morocco — Green March launch speech, Agadir, ~5 November 1975 (official text, Ministry of Habous "Da'wat al-Haqq"): the decision to march in "a peaceful Green March, backed by our rights... relying above all on our will and our faith" to recover the (Western) Sahara — the founding act of Morocco's territorial claim.

  قررنا أن نسير بمسيرة سلمية خضراء مدعمين بحقوقنا، محاطين بأشقائنا ورفاقنا، معتمدين قبل كل شيء على إرادتنا وإيماننا. شعبي العزيز تيقنت الآن وآمنت أن المغرب وشؤون المغرب ومستقبل المغرب في أيد أمينة في أيد طافحة بيمن الله، مليئة بالوطنية متشبتة بعملها، لاصقة بأرضها وتربتها.

• 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…

• Speech English DZ 1974-04-10 Tier 1

  Houari Boumediene (President of Algeria; Non-Aligned / Third-World leader) — UN General Assembly Sixth Special Session, 10 Apr 1974 (official UN record A/PV.2208): his landmark New International Economic Order address condemning the world economic order as "as unjust and as outdated as the colonial order… which continually impoverishes the poor and enriches the rich."

  That is the basis of the economic order of the world in which we live today. In the eyes of the vast majority of humanity it is an order as unjust and as outdated as the colonial order to which it owes its origin and substance. Inasmuch as it is maintained and consolidated and therefore thrives by virtue of a process…

• 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)

  Amal Movement

  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…

• 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…

• Speech English EG 1959-04-25 Tier 2

  Gamal Abdel Nasser — Speech to the Officers' Club, Cairo, 25 April 1959 (UAR period): pan-Arab unity ("The independence of all Arab countries is a closely knit entity") and POSITIVE NEUTRALITY / non-alignment ("we shall not… accept the role of a satellite"; "non-alignment to either East or West"). [Third doc — distinct PAN-ARABISM + NON-ALIGNMENT axes, vs the existing Suez/anti-imperialism and Arab-socialism docs.]

  […] we have resolved to follow an independent policy and to maintain the independence of our country. We made that known when we declared that our policy is based on positive neutrality and nonalignment, for this means that we shall not submit to power politics, and shall not, under any circumstances, accept the role…

• Speech Arabic EG 1956-07-26 Tier 1

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt) — Suez Canal nationalization speech, Manshiya Square, Alexandria, 26 July 1956 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Nasser archive): laying "the foundation of glory, freedom and dignity," resisting "imperialism and the agents of imperialism," and a call to "together establish Arab nationalism... and Arab unity."

  النهارده وجدنا الفرصة ووضعنا أساس العزة، ووضعنا أساس الحرية، ووضعنا أساس الكرامة. سنتجه قدماً إلى الأمام، نؤيد الحرية ونؤيد التحرير، نقاوم الاستعمار وأعوان الاستعمار. ولنرسى سوياً القومية العربية، ولنرسى سوياً الوحدة العربية.

• Speech Hebrew IL 1950-08-16

  נאום בפתיחת ועידת מפא"י (David Ben-Gurion — opening keynote to the Mapai conference, 1950)

  Mapai

  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…

• Speech English IQ Tier 2

  Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — statement, 2025 (per Kurdistan24, "Iraq Still Far from True Federalism"): "Baghdad's treatment of the Kurdistan Region does not align with the principles of federalism." [Second doc — distinct KRG-FEDERALISM / Kurdish-autonomy-rights axis, vs his election-day Iraqi-government-formation doc.]

  This model is outlined in the Iraqi constitution, which was approved by 80 percent of the people. But Baghdad's treatment of the Kurdistan Region does not align with the principles of federalism.