Screening: _People and the Land_ (Thursday, Nov. 29)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Thursday, November 29
Screening: _People and the Land_ (Dir. Tom Hayes, 1997)

Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: 21 Lazenby, Ohio State University, 1827 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH
Suggested donation: $2

Read a review of _People and the Land_ in _Washington Report on the
Middle East Affairs_ at
<http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0398/9803106.html>:

*****   The point of Tom Hayes' 1997 documentary, "People and the
Land," is clear: what Israelis are doing to Palestinians is an
American issue.  It should be of concern not only to Muslim
Americans, or Arab Americans, or Jewish Americans, but to all
tax-paying Americans.

The film begins with a shot panning across the legend written in
stone on the Internal Revenue Service building: "Taxes are what we
pay for a civilized society."  Then it explains that
$77,726,000,000,000 of those tax dollars (the total figure at the
moment Hayes edited the film and a sum that increases by $15 million
per day) have been granted to a country that is carrying out a most
uncivilized occupation.

Hayes juxtaposes two facts.  Since 1967 Israel has been the largest
single recipient of U.S. foreign aid. Sections 502(B) and 116(a) of
the Foreign Assistance Act prohibit military and economic aid to any
country that engages in "a consistent pattern of gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights."  He then demonstrates the
human cost of this contradiction, both in Israel and in the United
States....   *****

Sponsored by the Committee for Justice in Palestine

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--
Yoshie

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