Canadian-Israeli Women Returns Home after Aiding Kurds Fight ISIS

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The first Canadian-Israeli woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State, Gill Rosenberg, has finally arrived back home in Israel and claims to have left the front lines because she was worried about Iranian involvement in the war zone. In the past eight months, Rosenberg was mostly out of contact with anyone, giving birth to rumors that she had fallen captive.

Gill Rosenberg might still be facing a legal reckoning for her unauthorized travels after her sudden return on Sunday. Explaining the reason behind her decision, 31-year-old former Israeli army volunteer explained that the lessons of the Holocaust drove her to help protect the Kurds and other Middle East minorities menaced by Islamic State. She revealed that “I think we as Jews, we say ‘never again’ for the Shoah, and I take it to mean not just for Jewish people, but for anyone, for any human being, especially a helpless woman or child in Syria or Iraq.”

Rosenberg confessed to have taken part in “some pretty major firefights” with Islamic State insurgents holding lines just 2 km away as she admitted to have spent time with Kurdish YPG guerrillas in Syria and a Christian militia in Iraq named the Dwekh Nawsha. She stressed that “in the past few weeks I think a lot of the dynamics have changed there, in terms of what’s going on in the war. The Iranian involvement is a lot more pronounced. Things changed enough that I felt that it was time to come home.”

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