Nationalism often attempts to buttress its project by subsuming the complicating fault lines of gender, religion, age, sexuality, education, class, and ideological differences. Such differences, however, come to the fore as stakes in the project increase. This occurred in both DF branches and in political organizations more generally in the Occupied Territories and Jordan after the start of the Palestinian uprising in late 1987.

— Resistance, repression, and gender politics in occupied Palestine and Jordan by Frances Susan Hasso (Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East)