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attitude towards us were constantly changing to the worse during our life in Israel, and came to the most dangerous for
us point just to the moment of our departure for Canada. If we would be sent back, this attitude would not start from
"zero" (it was not zero even in 1991!), but would continue the most tense period of 1994. 2-nd: after our refugee claim in
Canada and my complains to the human rights organizations we could not expect that the Israeli authorities would like me
more now. This is why I am so sure about more severe sanctions:
1. Imprisonment within days or weeks since our arrival.
2. Forcible "treatment" inside a special mental hospital, where some political activists are placed. (Rabbi Meshulam,
leader of an upraise in a town Igud, told me over the phone about existence of such hospitals).
3. Imprisonment inside one of Mossad's secret cells.
4. Children's separation from us, parents.
5. Confiscation of our foreign passports, so that we would never been able to leave Israel any more.
1.5. INHUMAN TREATMENT
If we did not face inhuman treatment in Israel we would not come to Canada to claim a refugee status. (As - by the way
thousands of other Russian speaking peoples. Only by the very number of Russian-speaking refugee claimants from
Israel to the Western countries a conclusion could be made that they are not "economic refugees". And the economical
situation in Israel is not so bad, too!). We came not because of the economic reasons. We did not escape from hunger or
from extreme poverty. First two-three months in Israel we were in a shock because of what happened to us and because
of the general social atmosphere in the country. But we could not go back to our native country, and we were ready to
stay in Israel forever. When we discovered that a permission to leave the country is refused for me, we began to try even
harder to accommodate in Israel. We did everything to use to Israeli society, to find our place within it. This was already
discussed during our immigration hearings - when I said that we tried our best in our attempts to live in Israel.
In their negative decision IRB members did not expressed any principle doubt in the events, which we described in our
refugee claim. They even recognized in one sentence that some negative "reactions" causing conflicts could be expected
from ultra-orthodox towards people, who (as mention the IRB members avoiding word "respect" but mentioning it) do not
respect their supervision.
During the immigration hearings the immigration officer spoke about events of inhuman treatment, which we faced in
Israel, in a humiliating ma
appeared because of their attitude towards severe inhuman treatment like assaults and batteries as towards minor
events. They discussed, mentioned, or described inhuman treatment, which we faced in Israel, as well as our reaction to
it, as something humorous. They let us know that we took such events too seriously, and, if we could take them lighter, it
could prevent other similar events. But I am absolutely sure that if the IRB members could find themselves on our place,
their reaction could not be different from our.
After everything that happened to us in Israel, after characteristics, which I got in Israel as an "enemy", after contacts
between Montreal's Immigration Board with Israelis, after their negative decision, which defining me as a dangerous
"exaggerator" and "found me guilty" in "spreading slender" against Israel, what other treatment except of inhuman could
we expect in Israel?
1.6.RESUME
In this document I explained why my family, and me - we would be not like other people if removed to Israel: because my
personal confrontation with Israeli political structures began long before we were taken to Israel, because we did not want
to go to the state of Israel and were taken there against our will, because of the scandal at the Central railway station in
Warsaw, because I refused to cooperate with Mossad, because in Israel I became relatively well-known for my articles
against human rights violation in Israel and was defined by Israeli authorities as an "enemy", because our personalities
are not compatible to Israeli society, because we do not practicing Judaism, and because of a number of other reasons,
which were described in that document.
Our 3 years in Canada proved that I am not a pathological troublemaker. 3 years in Canada could show that we could live
avoiding conflicts, respecting the laws and regulations, and quickly accommodating. My children are good students, they
have a lot of friends, and they are completely suitable to the local society. My older daughter is an advanced piano player,
and she passed exams at McGill University with the best mark. My younger daughter is a talented ballerina, her pictures
are everywhere in Ballet studios, she is an advanced dancer, and she also was chosen to enter the National Ballet School
in Toronto from dozens of other pretendents. Their French is nice and literary, they also advanced in English. And we are
not on welfare any more! We could be peaceful and useful members of the local society if we would be given a chance to
stay here. (Group of documents # 4 in Supplements are corresponding to this paragraph).
THIS IS THE BEST PROOF THAT OUR TROUBLES IN ISRAEL ERUPTED NOT BECAUSE IT WAS OUR FAULT (as the
commissioners tried to show), AND NOT IN RESULT OF OUR "EXAGGERATIONS"! WE FACED PERSECUTIONS IN
ISRAEL BECAUSE OF OBJECTIVE REASONS AND COULD NOT GO BACK BECAUSE OF RISK TO LIFE, EXTREME
SANCTIONS, AND INHUMAN TREATMENT. OUR REMOVAL TO ISRAEL WOULD BRING US TO A TRAGIC END.
Theoretical suggestions if people like us could face a tragic end (without figuring out the impact our personal claim
events: as commissioners did) in Israel are completely useless in our case because our case and our personalities are
unique.
Please, give us a chance to stay here, because if we would be removed back to Israel lives of my children, my wife, my
mother, and my life, would be terminated! Please, do not send us towards tragic end. Try to understand your full
responsibility for what will happen if we would be sent back to Israel.
1.7. MY FINAL STATEMENT
As the most honest people I am not impudently self-confidential. I might be shocked by aggressive and ironical
interrogators (as Mrs. Malka): but this is just one more proof of my honesty and i
we presented to the Immigration Board so many documentary proofs as probably no refugee claimants in Canadian
Immigration's history! All of them, including legal, and medical documents, official correspondence and newspapers'
articles, related to me, other documents, were ignored, and only one document was considered as "non-related" without
any reasonable explanations. If the forces, which acted against us, could encourage such an outraged injustice and unfair
treatment of us even here, in Canada, in Israel they could eliminate us for sure. Sending us to Israel you must realize that
you send us to death. Removal to Israel means for us a death penalty. But Canada has no death penalty even in
Canadian criminal code! ! ! Especially, for children! I ask you to think about it while composing you final decision. Please...
Sincerely yours,
Lev Gunin
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