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

["Max Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*****   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. . . .


Hmmm.  $78 trillion.

Total Federal tax revenue, 1947-1997:  $22 trillion.  Hmmm.

I am concerned.

mbs