It is truly a pleasure  to see clarity spoken by a  known public figure about an issue where there has been none.  In a few sentences Ayaan Hirsi Ali demonstrated that she knows more  about the Middle East than all the pundits put together. 

She said:

What was a territorial conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis was transformed into an Arab Jewish, therefore ethnic conflict  and then from there expanded into a religious conflict . Now, that conflict,  that process, is no longer about the people on the ground, on that strip of desert. That territorial conflict has between 1948  and now  gone from territorial  and ethnic conflict  to a major religious and civilizational- symbolic conflict,   Now 1.57 billion Muslim people seem to have put their religious destiny into that conflict,  and the outcome they want is the eradication of Israel . I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that is the objective.