UN General Assembly
2001

repeat this, and also to add a few more words. It is true, or at least it seems to be true, that the terrorist attacks, which left thousands of deaths behind, have changed everything. However, the truth is slightly different: much has changed as a result of the attacks, but nothing has changed in the area that made it possible for the attacks to be committed. I would therefore like to stress the following points. In order to make sure that the terror experienced by New York and Washington will not happen again, we — I repeat, we — have to change the world completely. Today we live with the threat of global terrorism, and the global response to it. With regard to the nature of this first big war of the twenty-first century, I can only repeat what I recently mentioned in my speech in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. This is not a clash of civilizations; this is not a clash of cultures; this is not a conflict of religions. This is just a confrontation