The Arab-Israeli conflict reduces to three fundamental questions

Evidence

It is certainly not the most complicated of the problems of the Middle East. Indeed basically, the Arab-Israeli conflict is a very simple problem; it consists of three simple questions which I put in sequence: Should Israel exist? If so, where should its frontiers be? And, what should there be on the other side of those frontiers? — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1598

Categorization

• XREF: A compression of the conflict into a decision sequence — a useful counterpoint to discourse that treats it as uniquely intractable, unknowable complexity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1598