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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   But a Canadian fighting WITH ISIS against the Syrian government is.   Being a   
   Jewish Canadian helps too.   
   THIS is what the damnable Harper government has decided - on behalf of all   
   Canadians.   
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   Thomson Reuters Posted: Nov 10, 2014   
      
   Fighting ISIS: Canadian-Israeli woman joins Kurds in Syria   
      
      
   The Israeli citizen, identified by the station only as 31 years old and a   
   resident of Tel Aviv, said she had contacted Kurdish fighters over the Internet   
   before travelling through Iraq to train at one of their camps on the Syrian   
   border.   
      
   "They are our brothers," she told the radio station. "They are good people.   
   They love life, a lot like us, really."   
      
   The woman was preparing to enter combat zones in northern Syria, Israel Radio   
   said, where Kurdish fighters, many of them women, have been trying to fend off   
   Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants.   
      
   Female Kurdish fighters have fought alongside men for years in a guerrilla war   
   against Turkey, seeking an independent Kurdistan which would encompass parts of   
   Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.   
      
   The woman felt she could contribute from her Israeli military experience, the   
   station said, without elaborating.   
      
   Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with   
   the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against   
   shared Arab adversaries. The Kurds are spread through Syria, Iraq, Turkey and   
   Iran.   
      
   Worried about spillover from the Syrian war, Israel has been cracking down on   
   members of its 20-per cent Arab minority who return after volunteering to fight   
   with ISIS or other rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule.   
      
   Israel bans its citizens from travelling to enemy states, among them Syria and   
   Iraq, and officials did not respond to a Reuters inquiry about whether the   
   woman could face prosecution if she returns to Israel.   
      
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