corpus · 101 on file

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.

A new war is in nobody's interest. Certainly not in ours. Who wants to face a nuclear power with four kalashnikovs?

Yahya Sinwar · 2018 October 2018 interview with Francesca Borri of La Repubblica from inside Gaza — the first sit-down with a Western journalist by the newly installed Hamas leader in the Strip. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
May your house be destroyed.

يخرب بيتك.

Mahmoud Abbas · 2018 January 14 2018 PLO Central Council address — an Arabic colloquial curse directed at the US president after the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, broadcast live across regional networks. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
Israel has chosen to make it a year of a new war of genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

Mahmoud Abbas · 2014 United Nations General Assembly address weeks after the end of the 2014 Gaza war — the moment Palestinian leadership escalated its framing of Israeli military operations to invoke the genocide convention. Sources: un.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
I have come to Gaza, and I say from Gaza, with Gaza, and to Gaza: there is no compromise on Palestine, from the river to the sea, from the north to the south.

لقد جئت إلى غزة، وأقول من غزة ومع غزة وإلى غزة: لا تفريط في فلسطين، من النهر إلى البحر، من الشمال إلى الجنوب.

Khaled Meshaal · 2012 December 8 2012 address at Gaza's Katiba Square, the speaker's first visit to the strip in over four decades, days after the November 2012 Israel-Hamas escalation. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
We accept the establishment of our independent state on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.

نحن نقبل إقامة دولتنا المستقلة على حدود الرابع من حزيران 1967، وعاصمتها القدس.

Ismail Haniyeh · 2006 First major interview after Hamas's January 2006 PLC election victory, articulating the de facto 1967-borders posture that the movement would oscillate around for the next two decades. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

لقد جئت إليكم اليوم وفي يدي غصن الزيتون، وفي يدي الأخرى بندقية المناضل من أجل الحرية. فلا تسقطوا غصن الزيتون من يدي.

Yasser Arafat · 1974 November 13 1974 UN General Assembly address — the first time a non-state actor's leader addressed the body, with a sidearm strapped to his hip throughout the entrance though removed at the podium. Sources: un.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
We do not wish one drop of either Arab or Jewish blood to be shed; neither do we delight in the continuation of killing.

Yasser Arafat · 1974 PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974 — peace overture inside the same address that closed with the olive-branch-and-gun line. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
I dream of a one democratic State where Christian, Jew and Muslim live in justice, equality and fraternity.

Yasser Arafat · 1974 PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974 — the secular one-state vision in his first speech to the body. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
War flares up in Palestine, and yet it is in Palestine that peace will be born.

Yasser Arafat · 1974 Closing line of the PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□

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