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This article reflects on the findings of a research that demonstrates and analyses the unequal gender relations between men and women in dialogue encounters between the Palestinians and the Jewish Israelis. It maps out gender inequality in peace dialogue encounters focusing on the issue of language, as a symbol of national discourse vs. gender discourse. This article resorts to gender analysis in order to examine the experiences of Palestinian and Jewish men and women, group facilitators and participants in dialogue encounters which have taken place during the last 10 years. The qualitative research featured in this article addresses two main themes that were raised by the 22 facilitators and the 12 participants interviewed for the research.