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This is not my picture, just a pretty young lady. Below is the infamous, racist Letter from the Washington DC Israeli Embassy about me, talking about closing the borders on a whim to all but diplomats. And below that are letters I am sending to try to arrange semi-diplomatic status for other US citizens-educators, travelers, in the future.

EMBASSY OF ISRAEL

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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Sample letter in English-Text

Denis Hoppe

P.O. Box 4291

Dearborn, MICHIGAN

United States of America

Via: American Embassy

71 Hayarkon Street,

Tel-aviv, Israel 63908

e-mail: [email protected]

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

The Embassy of Israel

3514 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, N.W.

WASHINGTON, D C 20008 * TEL. (202) 364-5570 * FAX (202) 364-5490

Office of Palestinian Affairs, attn. Hassan Abd ar-Rahman, Washington DC, USA

Office of Palestinian Affairs

Arab Information Center

1100 17th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20008 USA

Senators Spencer Abraham/Carl Levin, Washington, DC., USA

Carl Levin

Russel Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, DC 20510 USA

Spencer Abraham

28222 Telegraph Rd. #200

Soutnfield, MI 48034 USA

How to set your internet browser to read Arabic text in Webspace

Netscape 2 represents an advance over the 1.1 way in that you don't have to change the preferences

each time you want to look at an Arabic page, you can set up the Arabic selection as your "User

defined" set-up and switch between this and the standard (English) one by a simple menu choice

each time you access an Arabic page.

To set "User Defined" correctly for Arabic:

Go to the menu Options: General Preferences : Fonts panel.

In: 'For the encoding:' choose User-Defined ... .

In Use the Fixed font and Use the proportional font choose any Arabic font(s).

You might as well set both to Arabic in this case.

When you want to read an Arabic page, go to the menu Options: Document encoding

and choose User Defined.

The text will then display in Arabic (but still adjusted to the left margin). There is also a "Western:

MacRoman" selection, which serves the same purpose if you have set it up with an Arabic font in

the Font panel.

from Knut S. Vicor, http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabnet.html#html, April 1997

Last updated on Saturday, December 13, 1997.


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