Shimon Peres Quotes
I do not agree with [Samuel P.] Huntington that the world has a clash of civilizations. The word has a clash of generations.
Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel (Labor), Nobel Peace Laureate, Interview, CNN International, June 12, 2012
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This phrase and the theory behind it are often misattributed to Samuel P. Huntington who first used it as the title of a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in 1992 and the following year used if as the Title of a very important article in Foreign Affairs. Huntington was very familiar with Lewis’ works and doubtless used the Lewis phrase as it perfectly fit Huntington’s concept. See {604193}.
Although he was a failure as a fighting general, he was prescient in this advice which would have helped had it been heeded by American policy makers at the beginning of the 21st Century.
See {635841} for a similar sentiment.
The Title of the Article has often been used to summarize his thesis in this quotation. It has been used so much that most people think that Huntington first originated the phrase and idea. Actually, it was Bernard Lewis. See {636820}
She was referring to the Muslim immigrants who were then coming into Europe in large numbers. Europe in general, and Italy in particular, have never had the American experience of assimilation of large numbers of immigrants, and many Muslims came to Europe just for the economic opportunities but did not like or respect the culture or the values. Some even preached hatred of the Christian West and fomented terrorism. This was different from America where Muslim immigrants arrived and despite the difficulties of new immigrants most thrived and were able to assimilate yet maintain their religion and cultural customs. At the same time many American Islamic immigrants represented the more modern Islamic which valued freedom and pluralism and unlike most Muslim nations of today, appreciated the advanced, modernistic, tolerant Islam of 1000 years ago when tolerance and freedom of thought within an Islamic framework made some Muslim countries the most advanced in the world.
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician who served both as ninth President of Israel, (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel, as well as Interim Prime Minister. He was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning nearly 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, was in office continuously until 2007, when he became President, being in that role for another seven years. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state. He was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
