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WASHINGTON, DC
OFFICE OF
CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS
November 4, 1997
The Honorable Carl Levin
United States Senate
459 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Senator Levin:
I am writing in reference to your 5 August 1977 letter regarding your constituent, Mr. Dennis Hoppe, who was detained at the Israel-Gaza border in October, 1966. I apologize for the delay in response, but the authorities in Israel required time to locate and reply to this specific request.
Unfortunately, due to the extreme threat Israeli citizens face from terrorists, the need sometimes exists to take precautionary actions to prevent such attacks. As a result, the Israel-Gaza border was closed to all traffic except that of diplomats on the day Mr. Hoppe attempted to travel to Gaza.
Mr. Hoppe then proceeded to board a military truck, start the ignition and lightly would a soldier before being apprehended and taken into custody.
Hopefully, circumstances will arise in the coming years that will allow Israel to permanently remove those travel restrictions that are occasionally implemented. Even so, Israel takes its security needs with the utmost amount of seriousness and can not tolerate such behavior.
I hope that this addresses your concerns. Please do not hesitate to contact my office if I can be of assistance to you in the future.
Sincerely,
Itzhak Oren
Minister of Congressional Affairs
3514 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, N.W. 8 WASHINGTON, D C 20008 * TEL. (202) 364-5570 * FAX (202) 364-5490 * TELEX 23 904152
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Tel-aviv, Israel 63908
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Yasser Arafat
President, Legislative Asembly
Gaza, Occupied Palestine
Via: American Embassy
71 Hayarkon Street,
Tel-aviv, Israel 63908
December 12, 1997
Dear President Arafat,
Forgive my limited Arabic. I am sending this letter in English and Arabic with "the Americans," because I see no other way to communicate with Gaza "under blocade."
I think you will agree with me that volunteers from the Peace Corps -which President Kennedy founded- would do useful works in Gaza and the West Bank and that two years for an American with the Palestinians would create friends who will defend the Rights of Palestine.
Therefore, why don't you request the Peace Corps in Washington to send volunteers to help -the schools, for example- in Gaza and the West Bank? Peace Corps
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20526 U.S.A.
(800) 424-8580
World Wide Web: http;//www.peacecorps.gov
I tried to teach English in Gaza in 1996, but I was not able to practice my profession as teacher because I didn't have credentials as a "diplomatic attach�," so as to move around -as you can see in the letter from the Israeli Embassy to my State Senator, in English. They charged me with "Terrorism," because I knew that Erez -the border- was open to foreigners(it was thus on the international T.V.)! If the American teachers were members of the Peace Corps they would then have somewhat of a "diplomatic" protection from the crazy Israeli soldiers.
I am trying to send this idea to the director of the Palestine School, on Palestine Street in Gaza by diplomatic courier with the American Embassy also, because I think the Israelis cut normal and electronic mail.
Likewise, I advise you, dear President, to correspond with the Peace Corps by means of the Embassy also--because the Israelis will not agree to this idea except if we make them understand it(people who were with the Peace Corps in lands colonized by the French told me that the French did not like the Peace
Corps because they were teaching English and not French.) ...for that reason I think that the Israelis will not like the Peace Corps. But, God willing, President Clinton will like the idea, so as to make the peace efforts succeed, and because he likes the ideas of the late and former President Kennedy.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Denis Hoppe
cc US President Clinton, the White House, Washington, DC
Director, Peace Corps, Washington, DC
Peace Corps
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20526 USA
Itzhak Oren, Congressional Affairs Officer, The Embassy of Israel, Washington DC, USA
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