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Quotes

Every verified statement attributed to a politician or party in the dataset. Each carries a year, the context, and at least one source citation. The same corpus drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on entity pages.

We are following the same path as the martyrs and the resistance: we will follow it, we will follow it.

نحن سائرون على نفس الطريق، طريق الشهداء والمقاومة، سنسير عليه، سنسير عليه.

Naim Qassem · 2024 First televised address by the incoming Hezbollah leadership after the September 2024 assassination of Hassan Nasrallah — signalling continuity rather than strategic revision. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
The fighting fronts are open on all the fronts that you can imagine, and Israelis must wait for our response on land, sea and air.

Hassan Nasrallah · 2023 Speech on Al-Manar TV, 3 Nov 2023, four weeks into the Gaza war. Nasrallah's first major address after Oct 7 — kept Hezbollah's direct entry into the war deliberately ambiguous. Sources: aljazeera.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
I declare my resignation from the premiership of the Lebanese government, knowing well the will of the late prime minister, the martyr Rafik Hariri, to confront this evil.

أعلن استقالتي من رئاسة الحكومة اللبنانية، وأنا أعلم تماماً إرادة الراحل رئيس الحكومة الشهيد رفيق الحريري في مواجهة هذا الشر.

Saad Hariri · 2017 November 4 2017 televised statement from Riyadh that triggered a regional crisis — the prime minister of one country resigning live on the channel of another, while clearly under duress. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
The consensual democracy represents a proper political formula to assure true partnership.

Hezbollah · 2009 Hezbollah 2009 Political Manifesto — the party's reframing of consociationalism under "consensual democracy" rhetoric. Sources: hintergrund.de Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
The major problem in the Lebanese political system, which thwarts its reform, development and regular updating, is political sectarianism.

Hezbollah · 2009 Section 3 of the Hezbollah 2009 Political Manifesto — declared position on confessionalism / muhasasa. Note the gap with the party's behavioral defense of the Shia quota. Sources: hintergrund.de Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
The Resistance role is a national necessity as long as the Israeli threats and aspirations persist.

Hezbollah · 2009 Section 2 of the Hezbollah 2009 Political Manifesto — codifies the post-2006-war "Resistance" doctrine alongside the Lebanese state army. Sources: hintergrund.de Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
You wanted a long war? We will fight you for a thousand years.

هل تريدون حرباً طويلة؟ نحن سنقاتلكم ألف سنة.

Hassan Nasrallah · 2008 August 14 2008 televised address marking the second anniversary of the 2006 war — a rhetorical hardening as the prisoner exchange of July 2008 was being framed as confirmation of the divine-victory thesis. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
Had I known on July 11 that the operation would lead to such a war, I would definitely not have done it.

لو كنت أعلم في الحادي عشر من تموز أن العملية ستؤدي إلى مثل هذه الحرب، لما كنت قمت بها بكل تأكيد.

Hassan Nasrallah · 2006 Post-war television interview reflecting on the kidnapping operation that triggered the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah war. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
America is the great Satan, and Israel is its tool in the region — but the equation has changed: the resistance has imposed a new equation.

أمريكا هي الشيطان الأكبر، وإسرائيل أداتها في المنطقة — ولكن المعادلة تغيرت، فالمقاومة فرضت معادلة جديدة.

Hassan Nasrallah · 2002 2002 Jerusalem Day speech — the annual late-Ramadan address where the speaker traditionally consolidates a year of rhetorical framing into a single statement. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
I tell you that the State of Israel, the entity that owns nuclear weapons and the strongest air force in the region, is weaker than a spider's web.

أقول لكم إن «إسرائيل» التي تملك أسلحة نووية وأقوى سلاح جوي في المنطقة، إن «إسرائيل» هذه أوهن من بيت العنكبوت.

Hassan Nasrallah · 2000 May 26, 2000 victory speech in Bint Jbeil after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The image — "spider's web" — became one of his most-cited phrases. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□

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