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My patience with this line of questioning finally ended when one man, alluding to an award that a Jewish group had given President Bush after the Gulf War, in- quired whether the presi- dent would have been so honored if one Israeli baby had been killed in the war instead of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. "One of the problems I have with sort of discus- sion," I responded irritably, "is that we end up pitting pain against pain. I don't like that . . . We'll end up seeing each other as nonen- tities. We need to see other other compassionately." When the panel ended almost two hours after it began, the bellicosity of the questions — and the one time the audience hissed me — convinced me that I had nary a friend among the 800 people in the hall. Yet I was instantly surrounded by about 40 people who, in the most friendly manner, cor- rected me on a few minor points I had made during the discussion, or said they had agreed with me, or con- gratulated me on my "courage" to appear before a group of American Arabs. I was stunned — and gratified. From the dias, I had detected only skeptics, nit-pickers and ideologues out front. But now, I real- ized, there was another uni- verse behind the vitriol I had heard, one that had the good will and the decent inten- tions to bridge the pain and the suspicions that are deep- ly embedded in the Jewish and Arab communities. I heard about a Jewish- Arab dialogue group with several hundred members in California's Orange County and about a smaller group in - Cambridge, Mass., and I heard of hope, which is much more than I had heard from the podium. But I also could not forget that during the 120 minutes of the panel discussion, I had heard another ethnic group's intense resentment against the news media, resent- ments that are very similar to those of the Jewish com- munity. And I wryly thought that if the notion of bias was enough to unite people, there would be a great con- federation between U.S. Jews and Arabs. And I quite sadly recog- nized that until Jew and Arab can talk with each other without such an en- counter becoming a mark of "courage," then both sides will lose the promise of such- meetings. For courage did not bring me to the Ameri- can-Arab convention, and I will not pretend with a macho swagger that it did: I went to hear the pain of others and for them to hear mine. ❑ Israel Makes Cuts Cancels 4,000 Houses Jerusalem (JTA) — The government made what it called its final housing cuts this week, announcing the cancellation of another 4,000 units, this time outside the administered territories. According to the Finance Ministry, the new freeze br- ings up to 11,981 the number of housing units that will not be built, 5,364 of them in the territories. According to these latest figures, 1,400 fewer units in the territories are being cancelled than the govern- ment had announced in its initial decision last week. The construction freeze is being presented as part of the government's declared policy to divert funds from the building industry to in- frastructure projects within the Green Line, Israel's pre- 1967 border that does not in- clude the territories. According to the treasury, the building freeze will save the state some $650 million for next year's budget. "This will be the real alternative to the building industry and the real alter- native to create new jobs," said Finance Minister Avraham Shohat. As a general rule, the government has not touched housing units already under construction. But Housing Minister Binyamin Ben- Eliezer, belying the "finality" of this week's an- nouncement, said Monday that an additional 2,000 units in the territories, still at the initial stages of con- struction, may be cancelled if there is no further demand for housing there.