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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.

  • After a year of the war, and with all that has been and is still being perpetrated in it, it is no longer tenable to talk about Israel's right to defend itself in this context without being complicit in justifying the crime.
    بعد سنة من الحرب، وبكلّ ما اقتُرف ولا يزال يُقترف فيها، لم يعد ممكناً الحديث عن حقّ إسرائيل في الدفاع عن نفسها في هذا السياق دون أن يكون ذلك تواطؤاً مع تبرير الجريمة.
    QA flag Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · 2024 Emir Tamim at the 79th UNGA, one year into the Gaza war — explicitly rejecting the "Israel's right to defend itself" frame. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • No state can firmly be established and stable in the presence of armed factions that are not under its control. These are self-evident and unquestionable matters.
    لا يمكن لدولة أن تقوم وتستقرّ بوجود فصائل مسلّحة خارج سيطرتها. هذه أمور بدهيّة لا جدال فيها.
    QA flag Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · 2024 Tamim's state-monopoly-on-arms doctrine at the 79th UNGA — paradoxically coexisting with Qatar's defense of Hamas. Often read as implicit critique of Iran-aligned militias. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • The occupation has brazenly taken the form of an apartheid regime in the broad daylight of the twenty-first century.
    لقد اتّخذ الاحتلال بشكل صريح شكل نظام فصل عنصري في وضح نهار القرن الحادي والعشرين.
    QA flag Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · 2023 Tamim's "apartheid" framing at the 78th UNGA, Sep 2023 — delivered 17 days before October 7. Evidence that Qatar's hard-line framing is doctrinal continuity, not a post-war pivot. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • We are open to dialogue with our neighbours to resolve all outstanding issues, but we will not accept any infringement on our sovereignty.
    إننا منفتحون على الحوار مع جيراننا لحل كل القضايا العالقة، لكننا لن نقبل أي مساس بسيادتنا.
    QA flag Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · 2017 July 21 2017 televised address from Doha, six weeks into the Saudi-led blockade — the response to the thirteen demands delivered through Kuwait. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□

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