I felt that I could come back and give more to the effort not by fighting on the front lines, but by either raising awareness and talking to people about it and my experiences.

Gill Rosenberg

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For me that was a big difference between just a regular war and genocide, and I couldn't stand by and allow that to happen.

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I saw they (the Kurdish militia) had female fighters, fighting right alongside the men, treated as equals and I thought, 'Why not me, I know I can help,'.

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I saw everything that was on social media, for me that was a big difference between just a regular war and genocide, and I couldn't stand by and allow that to happen.

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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, but 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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We were, like, under 2 km (1 miles) from Daesh (Islamic State) the whole time, for the most part, there were some pretty major firefights, but, you know, a lot of it was just holding lines.

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