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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.

  • Mr. Prime Minister, you said that a strong prime minister tells the President of the United States—'yes' when possible, and 'no'—when necessary. This is the time to tell our friend, President Trump—'no'. Now is the time to do what is required and necessary to strike Hezbollah, to unleash the hands of our fighters, and to restore security to the north.
    אדוני ראש הממשלה, אמרת שראש ממשלה חזק אומר לנשיא ארה״ב- ׳כן׳ כשאפשר, ו׳לא׳- כשצריך. זה הזמן לומר לידידנו, הנשיא טראמפ-׳לא׳. כעת הזמן לעשות מה שמתחייב ונדרש כדי להכות בחיזבאללה, להתיר את ידי לוחמינו ולהחזיר את הביטחון לצפון.
    IL flag Itamar Ben-Gvir · 2026 Tweeted on X on June 1, 2026, aimed at Netanyahu to continue striking Lebanon despite President Trump's call to stop. Sources: x.com ■■■□□
  • Israel's treacherous and reprehensible attack against the State of Qatar constituted a flagrant violation of its territorial integrity and of the security of the Arabian Gulf region.
    يشكّل اعتداء إسرائيل الغادر والمشين على دولة قطر انتهاكاً صارخاً لسلامة أراضيها ولأمن منطقة الخليج العربي.
    AE flag Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan · 2025 UAE institutional statement at the 80th UNGA (delivered by Lana Nusseibeh) — the Abraham Accords signatory explicitly condemning Israel's 9 Sep 2025 strike on Doha. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • We call for sanctions to be imposed on Israel in response to its blatant violations of international law and its unlawful encroachments on the sovereignty of states.
    ندعو إلى فرض عقوبات على إسرائيل ردّاً على انتهاكاتها الصارخة للقانون الدولي واعتداءاتها غير المشروعة على سيادة الدول.
    OM flag Sultan Haitham bin Tariq · 2025 Sultan Haitham at the 80th UNGA — the strongest sanctions call from any Gulf monarchy on the record. Notably stronger than Qatar's "state terrorism" framing. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■■
  • The current Israeli government's provocative calls for a so-called "Greater Israel" can only be realised through the blatant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbours — and there's nothing great about that.
    دعوات الحكومة الإسرائيلية الحالية الاستفزازية إلى ما يُسمّى بـ"إسرائيل الكبرى" لا يمكن أن تتحقّق إلا عبر الانتهاك الصارخ لسيادة جيرانها وسلامة أراضيهم. ولا شيء عظيم في ذلك.
    JO flag King Abdullah II · 2025 Abdullah II naming the "Greater Israel" doctrine as a regional threat at the 80th UNGA. Listed Israel's strikes on Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Tunisia, and Qatar. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • Statehood is not something Palestinians need to earn. It is not a reward — it is an indisputable right.
    الدولة ليست شيئاً يجب على الفلسطينيين أن يكسبوه. وليست مكافأة، بل حقّ لا جدال فيه.
    JO flag King Abdullah II · 2025 King Abdullah II at the 80th UNGA, Sep 2025 — the canonical Hashemite rejection of conditionality framing. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • We restructured civil and military institutions, dissolving all previous formations under the principle of ensuring weapons remain solely in the hands of the state.
    أعدنا هيكلة المؤسسات المدنية والعسكرية، وحلّ جميع التشكيلات السابقة وفق مبدأ أن يكون السلاح حصراً بيد الدولة.
    SY flag Ahmad al-Sharaa · 2025 Sharaa announcing the dissolution of HTS itself — the rebel formation that brought him to power — as part of the state-monopoly-on-arms doctrine. 80th UNGA, Sep 2025. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • Algeria is and will remain a sister country to which we are linked by ties of brotherhood, religion, history, geography, and shared destiny.
    إنّ الجزائر هي وستبقى بلداً شقيقاً تربطنا به وشائج الأخوّة والدين والتاريخ والجغرافيا والمصير المشترك.
    MA flag King Mohammed VI · 2025 King Mohammed VI's 2025 Throne Day Tetouan speech — the reconciliation overture toward Algeria after years of frozen relations. Sources: maroc.ma Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
  • Syria is reclaiming its rightful place among the nations of the world.
    سوريا تستعيد مكانتها الحقيقية بين أمم العالم.
    SY flag Ahmad al-Sharaa · 2025 Sharaa, the first Syrian president to address the UN General Assembly in nearly 60 years, declaring the post-Assad doctrinal pivot. 24 September 2025. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • The modern, advanced Israel admired from afar, and the Israel that Palestinians have experienced firsthand simply cannot co-exist. Israel will eventually be entirely one or the other.
    JO flag King Abdullah II · 2024 UN General Assembly, 24 Sep 2024 (79th session). One of the sharpest Hashemite formulations of the Israel-democracy paradox in nearly a quarter-century at the UN podium — delivered nearly a year into the Gaza war. Sources: rhc.jo Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • There will be no Palestinian state, and there is no place for a Palestinian state — neither west nor east of the Jordan.
    לא תהיה מדינה פלסטינית, ואין מקום למדינה פלסטינית — לא ממערב לירדן ולא ממזרחו.
    IL flag Bezalel Smotrich · 2024 2024 declaration during the post-October-7 Gaza war, rejecting Western and Saudi proposals for a two-state framework as a post-war horizon. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
  • 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.
    LB flag 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 ■■■□□
  • 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 ■■■■□
  • A new history, my brothers, is being written today in the entire region.
    يا إخواني، تاريخ جديد يكتب اليوم في المنطقة بأسرها.
    SY flag Ahmad al-Sharaa · 2024 Victory address at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on the day Bashar al-Assad's government fell after a twelve-day rebel offensive — the first public statement from the incoming transitional leadership. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
  • I'm the king of Jordan first, last, and always — and what I say is a Jordanian position, not the position of one tribe or another.
    أنا ملك الأردن أولاً وآخراً وأبداً، وما أقوله هو موقف أردني وليس موقف عشيرة من العشائر.
    JO flag King Abdullah II · 2024 2024 address pushing back against persistent narratives that Jordan should serve as an alternative homeland for Palestinians; widely reported in regional press. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · bbc.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
  • 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 ■■■■□
  • Due to the documented crimes of ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and genocide committed by the Rapid Support Forces militia, this group deserves to be classified as a terrorist organization.
    نظراً للجرائم الموثّقة من تطهير عرقيّ وتهجير قسريّ وإبادة جماعيّة التي ارتكبتها ميليشيا قوّات الدعم السريع، فإنّ هذه المجموعة تستحقّ تصنيفها منظّمة إرهابيّة.
    SD flag Abdel Fattah al-Burhan · 2024 General Burhan at the 79th UNGA naming the RSF as a terrorist organization. The signature SAF position in the Sudanese civil war. Sources: sudanembassy.nl Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • 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.
    LB flag 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 ■■■■□
  • When citizens are killed in their homes and their land, all the rules change.
    כאשר אזרחים נהרגים בבתיהם ובאדמתם, כל הכללים משתנים.
    IL flag Benjamin Netanyahu · 2023 October 8, 2023 televised address — the morning after the Hamas attack on southern Israel. Frames the subsequent Israeli military campaign as a categorical shift, not a routine response. Sources: gov.il · en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
  • 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 ■■■■□
  • It became necessary, out of our deep feeling of historic responsibility, to correct the direction of the revolution and even that of history itself.
    TN flag Kais Saied · 2022 Saied's signature framing in the 2022 Tunisian Constitution preamble — the claim to bypass intermediate institutional legitimacy and rule by direct mandate. Sources: hrw.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■■
  • The time has come to be landlords in our country. We have to restore deterrence, we have to be the masters of the situation.
    הגיע הזמן להיות בעלי בית בארץ שלנו. צריך להחזיר את ההרתעה, צריך להיות אדוני המצב.
    IL flag Itamar Ben-Gvir · 2022 November 1 2022 election-night address after the party's breakthrough into the Knesset as a senior coalition partner — the speech that previewed the new National Security ministry's posture. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
  • As a Muslim leader, let me say clearly that we are committed to defending the rights, the precious heritage, and the historic identity of the Christian people of our region.
    JO flag King Abdullah II · 2022 UN General Assembly, 20 Sep 2022 (77th session). Hashemite Custodianship of Jerusalem's Muslim AND Christian holy sites — a distinctly Jordanian framing of regional pluralism. Sources: gadebate.un.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • I announce hereby my final retirement from political work.
    IQ flag Muqtada al-Sadr · 2022 Handwritten letter posted to social media at the height of the August 2022 Iraqi political standoff over forming a government after the October 2021 election. The letter prompted supporters to storm the Republican Palace within hours. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • An agreement with a Palestinian state, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel's security, for Israel's economy, and for the future of our children.
    IL flag Yair Lapid · 2022 September 2022 UN General Assembly address by the then–Israeli prime minister — the first explicit two-state endorsement from an Israeli PM at the UN podium in over a decade. Sources: gov.il · en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■□□
  • Tunisia is in a state of war against itself — against thieves who looted its wealth.
    تونس في حالة حرب ضد نفسها، وضد لصوص نهبوا ثرواتها.
    TN flag Kais Saied · 2021 July 25, 2021 announcement freezing parliament and dismissing the prime minister under invocation of Article 80 emergency powers, the start of the post-2021 political reordering. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□
  • We have decided to take a bold step, even though we know that this step has serious risks attached to it.
    IL flag Mansour Abbas · 2021 June 2021 speech announcing the entry of an Arab-Israeli Islamist party into the Bennett-Lapid coalition government — the first time an Arab party formally joined an Israeli cabinet. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 2 — primary or translation ■■■■□
  • Twice in history we have lost our national home precisely because the leaders of the generation were unable to sit with one another and find a compromise.
    פעמיים בהיסטוריה איבדנו את הבית הלאומי שלנו דווקא משום שמנהיגי הדור לא הצליחו לשבת זה עם זה ולמצוא פשרה.
    IL flag Naftali Bennett · 2021 June 13 2021 Knesset address swearing in the eight-party "change government" — the rhetorical pivot framing coalition-building with the left and centre as an act of Jewish historical responsibility. Sources: en.wikipedia.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□

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