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LB 4 weeks ago Banking Secrecy Reform Law
Amended Lebanon's 1956 banking secrecy law to allow government authorities access to bank records as a precondition for IMF rescue talks.
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IQ 4 weeks ago Personal Status Law Amendment (2025)
Amendment empowering Iraq's Shia and Sunni religious endowments to handle personal-status matters (marriage, custody) — moving family law away from the 1959 unified civil code.
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TN 4 weeks ago Code of Personal Status (Majalla)
Promulgated on 13 August 1956, months after independence, by Habib Bourguiba's Neo-Destour government. In a single instrument it abolished polygamy, replaced repudiation with judicial divorce availabl
- Bill new TN 4 weeks ago
2002 Constitutional Referendum (abolition of presidential term limits)
Constitutional referendum held on 26 May 2002 under Ben Ali's RCD that abolished the three-term limit on the presidency and raised the maximum age of a sitting president from 70 to 75, while creating
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EG 4 weeks ago 2007 Constitutional Amendments (Articles 5, 88, 179)
Package of ~34 constitutional amendments pushed through by Mubarak's NDP and approved in a 26 March 2007 referendum (official 75.9% yes amid an opposition boycott and very low turnout). Article 5 bann
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MA 4 weeks ago Press and Publications Code (Law 88.13)
Morocco's first press code with no prison terms for peaceful speech offences, adopted 26 July 2016 by parliament under the PJD-led Benkirane government as part of a three-law package (the press code,
- Bill new LB 4 weeks ago
Parliamentary Elections Law No. 44 of 2017 (proportional representation)
Lebanon's first electoral law based on proportional representation, approved by parliament on 16 June 2017 and promulgated the next day, ending reliance on the majoritarian "winner-take-all" system. I
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IL 4 weeks ago Shabbat "Minimarket Law" (Amendment to the Business Licensing Law)
Amendment to the Business Licensing Law passed 58–57 on 9 January 2018 after a ~15-hour opposition filibuster, granting the interior minister authority to review and reject municipal bylaws that allow
- Bill new IL 4 weeks ago
Basic Law: Israel — the Nation State of the Jewish People
Declares Israel "the nation state of the Jewish People" and national self-determination "exclusive to the Jewish People"; names a complete and united Jerusalem the capital; makes Hebrew the language o
- Bill new MA 4 weeks ago
Law 13-21 on the Legal Uses of Cannabis
Created the legal framework for cultivating, producing, processing and exporting cannabis for medical, cosmetic and industrial use under a new National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis-Related Ac
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2021–2022 State Budget (first state budget in three and a half years)
After three and a half years without an approved state budget — a paralysis that had repeatedly forced early elections — the Bennett–Lapid "change government" passed the 2021 and 2022 budgets on 4–5 N
- Bill new IL 4 weeks ago
"Deri Law" — Amendment to Basic Law: The Government (minister with a suspended sentence)
Amendment to Basic Law: The Government rushed through the Knesset in December 2022 by the incoming Netanyahu coalition so that Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister despite a January 2022
- Bill new IL 4 weeks ago
"Chametz Law" — Amendment authorizing hospitals to bar leavened bread on Passover
Bill sponsored by United Torah Judaism letting hospital administrators bar the entry of leavened food (chametz) during Passover; passed 51–46 on 27 March 2023. It reverses a April 2020 Supreme Court r
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Organic Law 97.15 on the Exercise of the Right to Strike
First organic law to regulate the constitutionally guaranteed right to strike in Morocco, pushed through by the RNI-led Akhannouch government after the dossier had stalled since 2016. Final adoption b
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SY 4 weeks ago Transitional Constitutional Declaration
Five-year transitional constitution issued by Ahmad al-Sharaa establishing the legal framework for post-Assad Syrian governance. Names Islam as the religion of the head of state and Islamic jurisprude
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PS 4 weeks ago Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal takes effect
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led factions in Gaza took effect on 19 January 2025, in three 42-day phases mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar. The first phase had Hamas release 33 Israeli hosta
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Ahmad al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president
On 29 January 2025, Ahmad al-Sharaa was named president of Syria for the transitional period at a conference of the factions that toppled Bashar al-Assad. The founder and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,
- Event new IL 4 weeks ago
Shas founder Aryeh Deri imprisoned for bribery
Aryeh Deri, founding leader of Shas, was convicted in 1999 of taking about $155,000 in bribes, fraud and breach of trust committed while he served as interior minister, and sentenced to three years. H
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PJD forms Morocco's first Islamist-led government (Benkirane I)
After winning a plurality (107 seats) in the 25 November 2011 election — the first under the post-Arab-Spring 2011 constitution — the Justice and Development Party (PJD) provided Morocco's first elect
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PJD government pushes through the contested 2016 pension reform
In mid-2016 the PJD-led Benkirane government enacted a reform of the public-sector pension fund (CMR): the retirement age was raised from 60 to 63 (phased to 2022) and worker/employer contributions we
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FPM founder Michel Aoun elected President of Lebanon, ending a 29-month vacancy
On 31 October 2016, on its 46th attempt to reach quorum, parliament elected FPM founder Michel Aoun president with 83 of 127 votes, ending a presidential vacancy that had lasted since May 2014. His el
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King dismisses PJD's Benkirane after a five-month deadlock, names El Othmani
Though the PJD again won the 7 October 2016 election (125 seats), party leader and incumbent PM Abdelilah Benkirane spent five months unable to assemble a coalition (the "blocage"). On 17 March 2017 K
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YE 4 weeks ago STC forces seize government headquarters in Aden
Beginning 28 January 2018, armed forces loyal to the STC seized the Yemeni government's headquarters and most of Aden in fighting against forces of the internationally recognized Hadi government — an
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STC declares self-administration over southern Yemen
Citing a stall in implementing the November 2019 Riyadh Agreement, the STC declared self-administration (self-rule) over Aden and southern governorates in April 2020 and imposed a state of emergency.
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US Treasury sanctions FPM leader Gebran Bassil for corruption
On 6 November 2020 the US Treasury's OFAC designated Gebran Bassil — FPM president, MP, and former foreign, energy and telecommunications minister (Aoun's son-in-law) — under the Global Magnitsky prog
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RNI wins the 2021 election and forms the Akhannouch coalition government
The National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by Aziz Akhannouch, won 102 of 395 seats in the 8 September 2021 general election (up from 37). King Mohammed VI appointed Akhannouch head of government o
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Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government
The ultra-Orthodox parties Shas (11 seats) and United Torah Judaism (7 seats) entered Israel's 37th government, sworn in on 29 December 2022 — the most right-wing/religious coalition in the country's
- Event new IL 4 weeks ago
High Court disqualifies Shas leader Deri as minister; Netanyahu dismisses him
On 18 January 2023 an expanded 11-justice panel of the High Court of Justice ruled 10–1 that Aryeh Deri's appointment as interior and health minister was "unreasonable in the extreme," citing his Janu
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Akhannouch government launches the Direct Social Support cash-transfer program
On 28 December 2023 the RNI-led government began disbursing direct cash aid under the Aide Sociale Directe program — a minimum of MAD 500 per family per month plus per-child allowances — to roughly on
- Event new IL 4 weeks ago
UTJ uses Finance Committee to restore subsidies for draft-age yeshiva men
After the High Court ordered the state to stop funding yeshivas for draft-eligible students who fail to enlist, the Knesset Finance Committee — chaired by UTJ's Moshe Gafni — moved during 2024 to rest
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JO 4 weeks ago National Charter Party becomes the largest pro-government bloc in Jordan's 2024 election
In Jordan's 10 September 2024 parliamentary election — the first under the 2022 political-parties law that reserved a national party list — the National Charter Party (Hizb al-Mithaq al-Watani), found
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SD 4 weeks ago Umma Party wins 1986 election; Sadiq al-Mahdi becomes prime minister
After the 1985 popular uprising toppled Jaafar Nimeiry, the Umma Party won the largest share in Sudan's 1986 multiparty election and its leader Sadiq al-Mahdi — great-grandson of the Mahdi — became pr
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Bashir's coup overthrows the elected Umma-led government
On 30 June 1989 Colonel Omar al-Bashir, in alliance with Hassan al-Turabi's National Islamic Front, seized power in a coup that ousted Sadiq al-Mahdi's elected Umma-led government and established the
- Event new MA 4 weeks ago
USFP leads Morocco's "alternance" government — first opposition-led cabinet
After the USFP won the most seats in the November 1997 election, King Hassan II appointed its leader, veteran socialist Abderrahmane Youssoufi, prime minister on 4 February 1998; the "alternance conse
- Event new YE 4 weeks ago
Southern Transitional Council founded under Aidarus al-Zoubaidi
On 11 May 2017 Aidarus al-Zoubaidi — days after President Hadi dismissed him as governor of Aden — announced the formation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a UAE-backed body seeking self-ru
- Event new IQ 4 weeks ago
Ammar al-Hakim leaves ISCI to found the National Wisdom Movement (al-Hikma)
In July 2017 Ammar al-Hakim announced he was leaving the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), which he had led since 2009, to found a new "national" movement, the National Wisdom Movement (Tayyar a
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Al-Hikma wins 19 seats in its first election and enters government
Contesting the 12 May 2018 parliamentary election as a new party, al-Hikma won 19 seats while its former parent ISCI collapsed to three. Al-Hikma joined the Islah (Reform) alliance and the government
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Sadr's Sairoon alliance wins the most seats in Iraq's 2018 election
In the 12 May 2018 parliamentary election, Muqtada al-Sadr's cross-ideological Sairoon ("On the Move") alliance — pairing the Sadrist movement with the Iraqi Communist Party and secular activists on a
- Event new IL 4 weeks ago
Lieberman resigns as defense minister over the Gaza ceasefire
On 14 November 2018 Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman resigned as defense minister in protest at the Netanyahu government's ceasefire with Hamas after a major escalation in Gaza, calling it "c
- Event new IL 4 weeks ago
Yisrael Beiteinu joins the Bennett–Lapid "change government"
On 13 June 2021 Yisrael Beiteinu entered the eight-party Bennett–Lapid "change government" that ended Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister. Party leader Avigdor Lieberman took the financ
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Sadrist bloc wins 73 seats — the single largest — in the 2021 election
In the 10 October 2021 early election (called after the 2019 Tishreen protests), the Sadrist movement won 73 of 329 seats, its best-ever result and the largest single bloc. Sadr sought to form a major
- Event new YE 4 weeks ago
STC joins Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council; Zoubaidi made vice-president
When President Hadi transferred his powers to a new eight-member Presidential Leadership Council on 7 April 2022, the STC was formally incorporated into Yemen's governing body and its leader Aidarus a
- Event new IQ 4 weeks ago
Sadr orders all 73 of his MPs to resign from parliament
After eight months of deadlock in which he could not form a government, on 12–13 June 2022 Muqtada al-Sadr ordered all 73 Sadrist MPs to resign en masse from parliament. The seats passed to runners-up
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MR 4 weeks ago El Insaf wins a parliamentary majority in Mauritania's 2023 election
In the 13 May 2023 National Assembly election (first round; run-off 27 May), the ruling El Insaf (Equity) party, de facto led by President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, won an outright majority —
- Event new LB 4 weeks ago
Walid Jumblatt hands PSP leadership to his son Taymour
After leading the Progressive Socialist Party for 46 years, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt announced his resignation as party chief on 25 May 2023; at the PSP general conference in Ain Zhalta his son, MP
- Event new YE 4 weeks ago
Islah founded in newly unified Yemen
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (al-Islah) was founded on 13 September 1990 in Sana'a — months after Yemeni unification — by tribal paramount sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar together with Muslim Brotherho
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DZ 4 weeks ago RND founded as a pro-presidential party and sweeps the 1997 election
The Democratic National Rally (RND) was created in February 1997 by figures close to President Liamine Zéroual and the security establishment; only months later it won the June 1997 legislative electi
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BH 4 weeks ago Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc
In Bahrain's October 2002 election — the first for the restored Council of Representatives under the new constitution — the Salafi Islamic Asalah Society won seven seats, its best-ever result, establi
- Event new SD 4 weeks ago
ICC issues arrest warrant for NCP leader Bashir over Darfur
On 4 March 2009 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, adding genocide charges in July 2010 — the
- Event new BH 4 weeks ago
Asalah's parliamentary presence shrinks to 3 seats in the 2010 election
Asalah's representation in the Council of Representatives declined steadily — 7 seats (2002), 4 (2006), 3 (2010) and 2 (2014) — as it remained a loyalist Sunni Salafi bloc backing the government again
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SA 4 weeks ago King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (as Crown Prince) — the Arab Peace Initiative, Beirut Arab League Summit, 28 March 2002 (official UN/Arab League text): full Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied since 1967 + a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital + a just refugee solution, in return for full Arab normalization and comprehensive peace with Israel.
Speech · 2002 · 667 chars
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King Hassan II of Morocco — Green March launch speech, Agadir, ~5 November 1975 (official text, Ministry of Habous "Da'wat al-Haqq"): the decision to march in "a peaceful Green March, backed by our rights... relying above all on our will and our faith" to recover the (Western) Sahara — the founding act of Morocco's territorial claim.
Speech · 1975 · 271 chars
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Hosni Mubarak (President of Egypt) — final televised address, 10 February 2011 (full text via Arabic Wikisource), during the 25 January revolution: "I never submitted to foreign pressure or dictates; I preserved peace; I worked for Egypt's security and stability"; rejecting "foreign dictates from abroad" and insisting Egyptians "take no one's instructions."
Speech · 2011 · 263 chars
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Imam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (leader of Sudan's Umma Party; Imam of the Ansar; two-time elected PM) — essay "National Awareness and the Incubators of Extremism" (his official website / World Forum for Wasatiyya): "dictatorial rule, whether civil or military, is a form of extremism"; the universal Caliphate is "outdated... not a condition for realizing the principles of Islam in governance."
op-ed · 2018 · 214 chars
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt) — Suez Canal nationalization speech, Manshiya Square, Alexandria, 26 July 1956 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Nasser archive): laying "the foundation of glory, freedom and dignity," resisting "imperialism and the agents of imperialism," and a call to "together establish Arab nationalism... and Arab unity."
Speech · 1956 · 227 chars
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Mohammed Raad (head of Hezbollah's "Loyalty to the Resistance" parliamentary bloc) — appeal to "the people of the Resistance" (Al-Manar, post-2024 ceasefire): the resistance's weapon is "the real barrier preventing the entrenchment and hegemony of the occupation"; the fight is a "defensive" national duty; and neither an alliance with America nor normalization with Israel will protect the region's peoples and sovereignty.
Speech · 2026 · 378 chars
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Mahmoud al-Aloul (deputy chairman of Fatah) — remarks during a visit to Barqa and al-Mughayyir, West Bank (per WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, 2 Jun 2023): Palestinians will confront settlement and occupation with "popular resistance in all its forms," removing settlement outposts on the path to liberation and a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital, and will work to implement international-legitimacy resolutions.
Speech · 2023 · 280 chars
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Mazen Darwish (head of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression) — interview with Al Majalla (post-Assad-fall, late 2024 / early 2025): a national transitional-justice framework "with accountability at its core" is imperative to prevent vengeance and renewed civil war, but must be objective and "steer clear of the pitfalls of victor's justice."
Interview · 842 chars
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Dr Mostafa Madbouly (Prime Minister of Egypt) — speech launching the 2nd edition of the State Ownership Policy Document ("Deepening Reform 2026–2030"), 17 Jun 2026 (Al-Watan): private-sector-led growth as the government's target — its share of investment, already past 56.5%, to exceed 65% before 2030, with the state stepping back.
Speech · 2026 · 278 chars
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Masrour Barzani (Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq) — interview with The National, 5 Feb 2026: the KRG mediated between Damascus, the SDF and the US/France over Syria's Kurds, urging the new Syrian government to "lead and not be led" and enshrine Kurdish rights in the constitution; presses intra-Kurdish unity ("Elections should matter") and resolving Erbil–Baghdad oil/budget disputes constitutionally.
Interview · 2026 · 249 chars
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Driss Lachgar (First Secretary of Morocco's USFP — the Socialist Union of Popular Forces) — speech at the Socialist International conference, Rabat, 21 Dec 2024 (Al-Omk): social-democratic values of "justice, equality and human solidarity" as "effective tools for building a more balanced society and a more equitable world," and support for Palestinian self-determination and an independent state under international law.
Speech · 2024 · 268 chars
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Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — press conference at the UN two-state conference, 28 Jul 2025 (per Middle East Monitor): "normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state" — Saudi recognition conditioned on Palestinian statehood and self-determination.
Speech · 2025 · 380 chars
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Khalil al-Hayya (head of Hamas in Gaza; chief negotiator) — speech on Hamas's founding anniversary, 14 Dec 2025 (PNN, Arabic original): rejecting disarmament — the resistance and its weapons are "a legitimate right guaranteed by international law for all peoples under occupation, linked to the establishment of the Palestinian state"; Hamas rejects "all manifestations of guardianship and mandate over the Palestinians."
Speech · 2025 · 254 chars
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Murad al-Adaileh (Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm in Jordan) — to Middle East Eye after the IAF topped Jordan's Sept 2024 elections: the new parliament "must be robust in confronting the extreme Israeli right, which may... align with the extreme American right if Trump wins the US elections."
Interview · 2024 · 185 chars
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QA 4 weeks ago Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (Qatar's Prime Minister & Foreign Minister) — official statement announcing the Gaza ceasefire (Qatar MOFA, 15 Jan 2025): after "411 days" of mediation Qatar (with Egypt and the US) reached a ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel; "the responsibility now rests with the parties... to navigate toward the shores of peace."
Speech · 2025 · 596 chars
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Yanar Mohammed (Iraqi feminist; founder/director, Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq) — interview (Toward Freedom / Guernica, 11 May 2007): OWFI as "the modern, secular voice of Iraq that will not allow this country to be turned into another Afghanistan under the Taliban," and a critique that "women's welfare is... a card... used between misogynist parties," with "most women in government represent Sharia."
Interview · 2007 · 332 chars
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Egyptian writer, technologist and pro-democracy activist; long-imprisoned) — open letter to the RightsCon conference smuggled from Tora prison, 2017: "Fix your own democracy... the only possible answer," and a warning that human-rights advocacy must not become "a weapon in a cold war... [as] the Arab revolutions were lost when revolutionaries found themselves... recruits in proxy wars between regional powers."
op-ed · 2017 · 780 chars
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AE 4 weeks ago Anwar Gargash (diplomatic adviser to the UAE president; architect of the Abraham Accords) — Atlantic Council conversation at the Europe Gulf Forum, 16 May 2026: after Iran's strikes on the Gulf he says the Gulf's "outreach to Iran" has "failed" and "trust... is broken," and pointedly decouples Gulf security from Israel — "we did not see 7,000 Israeli projectiles... We saw 7,000 Iranian projectiles here" — framing Iran (not Israel) as the threat and seeing "opportunities also for Israel."
Interview · 2026 · 752 chars
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Asaad al-Shaibani (Foreign Minister of the post-Assad Syria) — in conversation with Fareed Zakaria at the Council on Foreign Relations, 25 Sep 2025: "Syria is now free, without Assad regime," opening "a new page... of peace and of cooperation with the region, with the world"; the state alone should bear arms ("only the army"); and the new government "would not impose Sharia on anyone."
Interview · 2025 · 431 chars
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Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.
Interview · 2024 · 264 chars
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Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (supreme leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah / the Houthi movement) — televised address reported by RT Arabic (~10 Apr 2025, amid the Gaza ceasefire collapse): calls for "jihad in the path of God against the Israeli and American enemy" as "the only way" to defend Palestinian rights, charges Israel with "genocide" under "open American support," and rejects surrender, concessions and political settlement.
Speech · 2025 · 460 chars
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Sheikh Ali Salman (Secretary-General of al-Wefaq, Bahrain's main opposition party) — Amnesty International (30 May 2016): Bahrain's appeal court upheld his conviction and raised his sentence from 4 to 9 years over 2012/2014 speeches criticizing the government; Amnesty deems him a prisoner of conscience jailed solely for peacefully expressing his views.
Article · 2016 · 852 chars
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Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; feminist, Zionist-left) — interview with The Forward during a 2023 US visit (8 Jun 2023): calls reviving liberal Zionism "the future of Israel," likens Netanyahu's politics to Trumpism, and vows to defend Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul.
Interview · 2023 · 841 chars
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Salman al-Awda (prominent Saudi reformist cleric; detained Sept 2017) — per Human Rights Watch (7 Jan 2018): ordered to tweet support for the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, he instead posted a call for Gulf reconciliation ("may God harmonize between their hearts for the good of their people") and was detained, held in solitary confinement without charge, with travel bans imposed on his family.
Social post · 2017 · 392 chars
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Mohammad Mustafa (Prime Minister, Palestinian Authority) — remarks in Brussels with the EU's Kaja Kallas, ~20 Apr 2026 (The National): the PA's "one state, one government, one law and one gun" — a single national authority with a monopoly on arms, the gradual collection of weapons from all armed groups, full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and sovereignty as the basis for durable security.
Speech · 2026 · 500 chars
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Aidarus al-Zoubaidi (President, Southern Transitional Council; deputy chair, Yemen Presidential Leadership Council) — interview with The National at the UN, 24 Sep 2025: backs South Yemen's right to self-determination and independence (restoring the pre-1990 southern state), and — distinctively — openness to joining the Abraham Accords / ties with Israel once independent.
Interview · 2025 · 563 chars
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Ayman Nour (Egypt's leading liberal opposition figure; founder, El-Ghad Party) — exclusive DAWN "Democracy in Exile" interview, 7 Aug 2023: frames the 2013 takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns Sisi-era arbitrary detention and frequent deaths of detainees in custody.
Interview · 2023 · 420 chars
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Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — press conference on Iraq's parliamentary-election day, 11 Nov 2025 (Rudaw): Iraq must make a "serious effort" to implement the constitution (the KDP's central demand on Kurdistan's autonomy), and he hopes the vote ushers in "a democratic federal Iraq where all components get their rights."
Speech · 2025 · 313 chars
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Mohammed al-Halbousi (leader, Taqaddum/Progress Party; former Speaker of Iraq's Parliament) — al-Rasheed readout of his meeting with northern Babil notables, 10 Sep 2025: security/provincial stability via return of the displaced, reconstruction of damaged areas, social harmony, "preserving entitlements," and active election participation. (Outlet readout, not a verbatim quote.)
Press release · 2025 · 328 chars
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Ziad al-Nakhalah (Secretary-General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad) — televised speech during the first Gaza truce, 24 Nov 2023 (full text via Al-Quds News): the enemy's captured officers/soldiers will not be released except by freeing ALL Palestinian prisoners, tied to ending the war ("everyone for everyone"). Supplies verbatim content for his previously-empty placeholder doc.
Speech · 2023 · 317 chars
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Abdalla Hamdok (chair, Sumoud civilian-democratic coalition; former PM) — Sumoud's founding statement, Feb 2025 (via Sudans Post): democratic civil forces must keep an independent path, refuse to side with any party in the war, protect civilians, and push for an urgent political end to the war. (The civilian pole vs Burhan's army and Hemedti's RSF.)
Press release · 2025 · 750 chars
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Hemedti (Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, RSF commander) — on the RSF-led Tasis ("Founding") Alliance and its 1 July 2025 parallel-government declaration (The EastAfrican): "We are not building a parallel state… we are building the only realistic future for Sudan," and the alliance's charter for a decentralised federal, secular, democratic state. (Declared vision vs the RSF's record — Hemedti is US-designated for genocide.)
Article · 2025 · 403 chars
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LY 4 weeks ago Khalifa Haftar (commander, Libyan National Army) — televised speech of 27 April 2020 (Middle East Eye): claims a "popular mandate" for the armed forces to take over Libya's governance and unilaterally declares the 2015 UN-brokered Skhirat political agreement null and void. (Complements the Dbeibah doc — the rival eastern side of Libya's split.)
Speech · 2020 · 457 chars
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Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (PM, Libyan Government of National Unity) — remarks at the Tripoli Government Communication Forum (Libya Observer; undated in source, post-Sept-2023): his government "will not leave until elections are held," he backs elections under fair laws, and he "does not object to Saif Gaddafi's candidacy unless there are legal obstacles."
Speech · 2023 · 577 chars
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Mohamed Badie (General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood) — his Rabaa al-Adawiya address, ~5 July 2013: the famous declaration "our peacefulness is stronger than bullets," framing the Brotherhood's response to the coup as nonviolent resistance and calling the army back to its constitutional role (documented by Arabi21, with his verbatim slogan).
Speech · 2013 · 361 chars
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al-Manar [Hezbollah media organ] — "the enemy entity"/south Lebanon framing, Telegram, 2026-06-21
Social post · 2026 · 153 chars
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Nabih Berri (Speaker of Parliament; leader of the Amal Movement) — statement to NBN guaranteeing "the resistance's" full, comprehensive and immediate commitment to a ceasefire if a clear formula is reached, while asking who will compel Israel to halt its aggression (reported by Lebanon Debate, 31 May 2026).
Interview · 2026 · 336 chars
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al-Manar [Hezbollah media organ] — Gaza "martyrs/occupation" framing, Telegram, 2026-06-21
Social post · 2026 · 107 chars
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Abdelilah Benkirane (Secretary-General, PJD) — speech at a Casablanca rally marking one year since 7 October, late Oct 2024 (Hespress): the PJD "was never with normalization, and will never be," former PM El Othmani is the one who should apologize for signing, and "the PJD cannot sell the Palestinian cause." (The internal-party counterpart to the PJD's 2020 normalization divergence.)
Speech · 2024 · 364 chars
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Gebran Bassil (President, Free Patriotic Movement) — US Treasury (OFAC) Global Magnitsky designation for corruption, 6 Nov 2020 (Treasury press release sm1177): cites his role in steering Lebanese government funds to associates via front companies (2014, as Energy Minister) and patronage appointments (2017). Bassil denies the allegations.
Press release · 2020 · 936 chars
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Naim Qassem (Secretary-General, Hezbollah) — "Day of the Martyr" address, 11 Nov 2025 (full text on Hezbollah's Al-Manar): frames demands to disarm Hezbollah as escalating "pretexts" ultimately aimed at the movement's very existence, and calls on the Lebanese government to pursue national sovereignty while rejecting "American dictates."
Speech · 2025 · 808 chars
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Samir Geagea (leader, Lebanese Forces) — declared positions on decentralization and democracy, from a 2026 "Pen Cast" podcast interview (reported by SyriacPress): Lebanon's core problem is a plural society governed by an overly centralized state, so he advocates "decentralization in its broadest sense"; he defines democracy as "the right of every group to choose its own representatives."
Interview · 2026 · 925 chars
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Likud behavioral democracy record — the 2023 judicial overhaul: the Likud-led government's plan (architected by Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin) to curb Supreme Court judicial review; PM Netanyahu (Likud) said it would "strengthen democracy," while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned it would "drastically undermine" the judiciary's check on executive and legislative power. Reported by JURIST (Feb 2023).
Article · 2023 · 584 chars
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Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).
Article · 2022 · 677 chars
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FJP behavioral civil-liberties record — the Dec 2012 Itihadiya Palace detentions: FJP Deputy Secretary Essam al-Erian called on air for protesters to be "arrested," and Brotherhood/FJP members detained and beat 49 anti-Morsi protesters at a makeshift center (a police report records "youth from the Freedom and Justice Party" handed them over). Documented by Human Rights Watch (12 Dec 2012).
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PJD declared-vs-behavioral divergence on Israel normalization: the party's historic anti-normalization stance (incl. a 2013 bill to ban any ties) vs its acquiescence in power to King Mohammed VI's December 2020 normalization with Israel — signed by PJD secretary-general/PM Saadeddine El Othmani. Documented by the Moshe Dayan Center (Tel Aviv University); royal-prerogative context noted.
Article · 2020 · 633 chars
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Hamas behavioral civil-liberties / press-freedom record in Gaza: the March 2019 crackdown on the "We Want to Live" (Bidna Na'eesh) economic protests — Hamas security forces beat demonstrators, rights defenders and journalists and made 1,000+ arbitrary arrests (incl. at least 17 journalists and 6 human-rights defenders). Documented by Human Rights Watch (20 Mar 2019).
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Amal Movement behavioral conduct-axis record: its militia's participation in the May 2008 armed takeover of West Beirut alongside Hezbollah — turning arms inward against fellow Lebanese, conducting searches and arrests of Future Movement militants. Documented by the International Crisis Group, "Hizbollah's Weapons Turn Inward" (15 May 2008; ETH/ISN mirror of the ICG briefing).
Article · 2008 · 485 chars
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Hezbollah behavioral conduct-axis record: the May 2008 armed takeover of West Beirut — turning its weapons inward against Lebanese rivals after the government challenged its parallel telecom network — a sharp divergence from its declared "national resistance" identity. Documented by the International Crisis Group, "Hizbollah's Weapons Turn Inward" (15 May 2008).
Article · 2008 · 525 chars
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Fatah-led Palestinian Authority behavioral civil-liberties / press-freedom record: HRW found the PA "routinely arrest[s] and torture[s] peaceful critics and opponents" in the West Bank, and held 221 Palestinians in administrative detention without charge or trial (Jan 2017–Aug 2018). HRW report "Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent" (23 Oct 2018).
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