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.

No citizenship without loyalty.

Avigdor Lieberman · 2009 A 2009 election campaign slogan tying Israeli citizenship to a declaration of loyalty to the state and its symbols. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 3 — English secondary ■■■□□
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 ■■■■□
Palestinians must clearly and unambiguously recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

Benjamin Netanyahu · 2009 Israeli prime minister's Bar-Ilan University address, 14 June 2009 — the precondition that defined Likud-right two-state terms for the following decade. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
The territory under Palestinian control must be demilitarized with ironclad security provisions for Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu · 2009 Israeli prime minister's Bar-Ilan University address, 14 June 2009 — the second of the two preconditions for accepting a Palestinian state. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel with continued religious freedom for all faiths.

Benjamin Netanyahu · 2009 Israeli prime minister's Bar-Ilan University address, 14 June 2009 — the Jerusalem position alongside the conditional acceptance of a demilitarized Palestinian state. Sources: palquest.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the Terror Council.

Muammar Gaddafi · 2009 UN General Assembly, 23 Sep 2009 — Gaddafi's only address to the UN. He spoke for 96 minutes, tore the UN Charter, and called the Security Council illegitimate. Became one of the strangest debate moments in UN history. Sources: gadebate.un.org 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 ■■■□□
If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

אם יגיע היום שבו פתרון שתי המדינות יתמוטט ונעמוד מול מאבק על זכויות הצבעה שוות בנוסח דרום אפריקה, ברגע שזה יקרה, מדינת ישראל גמורה.

Ehud Olmert · 2007 November 29 2007 interview with Haaretz, framing the demographic argument for partition in language no sitting Israeli prime minister had previously used in public. 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 ■■□□□
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 ■■■□□
The disengagement plan is meant to grant maximum security and minimize friction between Israelis and Palestinians.

תוכנית ההתנתקות נועדה להעניק מקסימום ביטחון ולמזער חיכוך בין ישראלים לפלסטינים.

Ariel Sharon · 2003 December 18 2003 Herzliya Conference address — the speech that introduced unilateral withdrawal as right-wing security doctrine, two years before the Gaza pullout. 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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