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Yael Dayan, novelist, journalist and the daughter of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Hanan Mikhael-Ashrawi, a crusader for equal rights for women in the Palestinian movement, debated the best process to achieve peace between Palestinians and Israelis in front of a large audience at the Agassiz Theatre...
Dayan and Mikhael-Ashrawi held opposing views on the role women should play in the Middle East peace process. Mikhael-Ashrawi said she wanted Palestinian women to act on a grassroots level, participating in protests and creating community-based organizations...
...Palestinian women are in large structures of grassroots committees representing all sides of the political spectrum," Mikhael-Ashrawi said...
...Mikhael-Ashrawi, in turn, criticized Dayan for her belief in the exclusive importance of political involvement, saying it is ineffective for achieving peace and damaging to women's rights...