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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.

I am ready to go to the ends of the earth, even to the house of the Israelis themselves, to the Knesset itself, in order to bring peace to my people.

إنني مستعد أن أذهب إلى آخر الدنيا، بل إلى بيت الإسرائيليين نفسه، إلى الكنيست نفسه، لأحقق السلام لشعبي.

Anwar Sadat · 1977 November 9 1977 People's Assembly address that preceded by ten days the historic visit to Jerusalem — the rhetorical gesture that broke the regional taboo on direct negotiation. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com · en.wikiquote.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■□□□□
I have come to you so that together we may build a permanent, just peace — so that not a single drop of blood is shed from an Arab or Israeli body.

لقد جئت إليكم لكي نبني معاً السلام الدائم، العادل، حتى لا تُراق نقطة دم واحدة من جسد عربي أو إسرائيلي.

Anwar Sadat · 1977 Mission statement at the close of Sadat's 20 November 1977 Knesset address, after explicit rejection of a separate or partial Egyptian peace. Sources: palquest.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
I have not spoken and will not speak with two tongues; I have not dealt and will not deal with two policies.

إنني لم أتحدث ولن أتحدث بلُغَتَيْن، ولم أتعامل ولن أتعامل بسياستَيْن.

Anwar Sadat · 1977 The second of Sadat's "five truths" — declaration of single-track diplomacy delivered at the Knesset, 20 November 1977. Sources: palquest.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
There is no happiness for anyone at the cost of others' misery.

لا سعادة لأحد على حساب شقاء الآخرين.

Anwar Sadat · 1977 The first of Sadat's "five truths" — opening principle of his 20 November 1977 Knesset address, the Egyptian peace initiative. Sources: palquest.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.

Anwar Sadat · 1977 From the 1977 autobiography In Search of Identity, on the psychology of political change. Sources: en.wikiquote.org Tier 3 — English secondary ■■■■□
Tomorrow, God willing, you will cross the border. Tomorrow, God willing, you will set foot on your land. Tomorrow, God willing, you will touch your sand. Tomorrow, God willing, you will embrace a land that is yours, and embrace your brothers who have been awaiting you for years.

غداً إن شاء الله ستجتازون الحدود، غداً إن شاء الله ستطؤون أرضكم، غداً إن شاء الله ستلمسون رمالها، غداً إن شاء الله ستعانقون أرضاً هي أرضكم، وتعانقون إخواناً لكم انتظروكم سنين.

King Hassan II · 1975 November 5 1975 royal address ordering 350,000 unarmed Moroccan civilians to march south the following day — the operation that, within a week, reset Western Sahara's territorial map. Sources: maroc.ma · britannica.com · britannica.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
The new international economic order will be born of the unanimous will of the peoples, or it will not be.

إن النظام الاقتصادي الدولي الجديد سيولد من الإرادة الموحدة للشعوب، أو لن يكون.

Houari Boumediene · 1974 April 10 1974 UN General Assembly special session address — the speech that gave the New International Economic Order its rhetorical frame as a Global-South project. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · un.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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