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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.... *****
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