I discovered that our political defeat was the result of our cultural defeat. I could see very clearly that the debacle of 1967 was the fruit of a rotten tree that needed a cure - the internally defeated do not triumph. The cure must start with our households and those in power, with our social values and ties, with the fabric of the family, with the rules and basic upbringing of the individual at home, in school, and at university, and then progress to the street. Mothers can be both the dough-baker and the steel-maker of nations. Mothers are the nation because they are the source and the cornerstone.

The point of intersectional analysis is not to find ‘several identities under one’ […] Instead, the point is to analyse the differential ways in which social divisions are concretely enmeshed and constructed by each other and how they relate to political and subjective constructions of identities.

I took a knife and began cutting here and there. I drew a map of the land of Israel - as I remembered it from the Biblical period - on his back, and marked in all those Philistine towns like Gath and Ashkelon, and with the blade of the knife I etched the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River which empties out into the Dead Sea that goes on evaporating for ever.