>From: "Robby Barnes" <robby_barnes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>To: "Post to A-Infos" <a-infos-en@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: (en) Israel: A message from Conscientious Objector, Gabby Wolf
>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:23:44 -0400 (EDT)
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>Forwarded message:
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>From: "Sergeiy Sandler" <sergeiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>A Letter to Each of You from CO Gabby Wolf
>
>Saturday, April 14, 2001
>
>A message from CO Gabby Wolf
>
>April 14, 2001
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Below is a letter that Gabby Wolf wrote in the brief recess he was given
>between one imprisonment and another. He asked me to forward it to you.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sergeiy Sandler.
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>when, on April 1st I refused to become part of the IDF I was sent to the
>jailing facility at the Induction Base. There I was sentenced to 14 days
>in
>military prison, spent the night and was sent to Military Prison No. 4 on
>Monday Morning. In Tzrifin (where the prison is located) I tried to
>convince some newcomers to the prison of my ideas, and was thrown on
>Tuesday
>morning to the isolation ward, after refusing to get a free, military
>haircut (my four-and-a-half-year-long hair is important to me).
>
>I was welcomed by a commander, who decided to scream all kinds of threats
>directly into my left ear ("You are now in my isolation ward! Do you know
>what that means?" "..." "That means, you are going to suffer! Suffer
>
>badly!!") All by stuff (my pens, some books, soap, my tooth brush and other
>things) was taken away from me, and I was sent to my cell with my
>underwear,
>some books, three blankets, my uniform and a 3 cm. thick mattress. My
>cell, a small room, with two cement blocks (beds), 24-hours a day neon
>illumination and a cellmate who speaks only Russian. I felt lonely. Very
>lonely. During the days (for at least a week) I was busy mainly waiting
>for
>the next meal and trying to read the books the only thing I was allowed to
>do. It was very difficult to concentrate in the isolation ward. That was
>how I spent my nineteenth birthday, on April the 4th.
>
>On Friday, 6 April, I was at last allowed to take a shower. I had seven
>minutes to get undressed, to wait for hot water, to give up, to try to take
>a shower in ice cold water without getting a heart attack, to get dressed
>again, and to be screamed at that exceeded the time limit by two and a half
>seconds ("Tomorrow you'll get judged for that. Do you understand?" in
>fact, I was never judged for this "offence").
>
>That same day I was also allowed to phone home. While I was on the phone,
>my commander took a look at my personal file. I guess he was not
>previously
>aware of the faxes and letters from Israel and abroad, which the prison
>commander and the Minister of Defence got, protesting my imprisonment, and
>was a bit astonished.
>
>That, of course, had nothing to do with the fact that this Friday I was
>moved to a different cell (with a bit of sunlight, no 24-hours-a-day neon
>illumination and a toilet), I was now taken out of my cell for meals and to
>perform different tasks like washing dishes and the ward's floor (several
>times one after the other, whenever my commander was in an especially good
>mood).
>
>On Monday (another shower) CO Lotahn Raz and my mother visited me and told
>me about the demonstration planned by the New Profile Movement at the next
>day. Before and during this demonstration, Joseph Algazi, a journalist
>from
>the Ha'aretz daily newspaper, heard about my conditions of imprisonment in
>the ward, and on Wednesday he published a short story about the
>demonstration and me.
>
>I didn't have to wait a long time for the proof that my prison commanders
>can read: on Thursday morning they started running around and asking me
>questions about the times at which I was allowed to take a shower, whether
>I
>had hot water, whether I was able to send letters (I wasn't), whether I got
>copies of the faxes sent on my behalf to the IDF, and other questions. At
>noon I was pushed into the shower and in the afternoon, I was pushed there
>once again ("So you can't say you didn't have enough opportunities to get a
>shower"). A bunch of letters was thrown into my cell, together with 15
>military postcards and a pen. On Friday I was released.
>
>Thank you all the New Profile people, all those who demonstrated, all those
>who wrote letters, published, and spoke out. Thanks also to all those who
>painted graffiti on the walls of Tel-Aviv it all helped.
>
>This Sunday, I will have to be at the DKM7227RM KLT unit (no, I don't know
>where or what that is, neither does the military city liaison officer in
>Jerusalem).
>
>I guess I will be sentenced once again to 14 or 28 days of imprisonment. I
>will once again be sent to prison, will refuse to have my hair cut and be
>sent to the isolation ward. Let's see when they grow tired of it.
>
>Yours,
>
>Gabby Wolf.
>
>
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