Monday, January 12, 2026

Venezuela is not the first and will not be the last

 

Venezuela is not the first and will not be the last

By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel*

Monday, January 12th, 2026


 

Venezuela is not an isolated case, it is the story of the colonialism and the greedy oil and minerals companies.

We saw it in Iran in early 1950th, in Kongo in the 1960th, in Egypt through the 1950th and the 1960th, in Lebanon in the 1950th, and in 1970th, in Chile and in Vietnam in the 1970th in Nicaragua in 1980th, in Panama in 1990th, in Iraq in 1990th and still going on, Afghanistan early 2000, the nonstop aggression and military coups in Haiti, now against Iran again ……and more and more, no enough room to list all historical and current western aggressions.

In one hand the colonialism power can’t accept that their colonies, the so called third world countries, could advanced and be developed out of the control of the colonizing power and not for their own benefit

In the other hand these greedy oil and minerals companies can’t tolerate that any country can use their natural resources to be develop their economy for the well being of the citizen without getting an illegitimate cut.

Both don't like to see any of the so called the so called third world countries achieve their independence and live in dignity and plan their own destiny.

What we are seeing in Palestine for more than 100 years, is the same, and that is why they created and blindly supporting Zionism to continue terrorizing and controlling the entire region.

The new US administration is not pioneer in this, it is not that different than UK, Belgium, Canada, France, and all previous US administrations, with no exception, and I can't forget Germany that still carrying the Nazi’s ideology while it publicly condemns their practice.

The only different we see from this current US administration is being blunt and clear, not hiding behind the laughably slogans of democracy and women freedom, while using it as needed.

Venezuela is not the first and will not be the last, colonizing is back and unless people united against it will keep growing and be greedier, and no single one in the world will be safe.

 

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder and ex-Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder and a board member of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD). He is a co-founder of the Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), the Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, and the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”. He is the ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), a member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM).

 

He could be reached at 1-514-863-9202, e-mail: public@mohamedkamel.com, twitter: @mskamel, blog: http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/APresidentForEgypt/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3y4Hxgf05Xr0iDU68r8GQ

 

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Several asking who to vote for in Canada 2025 federal election?

Several asking who to vote for in Canada 2025 federal election?




As we are approaching the Canadian federal election, we are asking to who we cast our ballot?

It you are a person of principle and care about the future of our country and our children, you will join me in voting in this coming election, and if you believe in Human Rights and feel disgusted with the situations around the world, especially this madness taking place at the south boarder. Also, the double standard of the western societies in dealing with Russia/Ukraine war Vs the genocide taking place against Palestinians for more than 80 years, we are in the same boat.

Analyzing the federal parties is not easy, taking their promises in account is a delusion, we need to check all parties and candidates’ history and where they stand from the main issue.

What is the position of the federal parties?

Voting for any of the conservative parties as committing suicide by giving away our future to extreme right-wing pro-genocide, pro-apartheid, they don’t represent us nor our values, don’t be deceived by their slogans about families’ values, these are not their real value, these are empty slogans.

Blanc check for the Liberal Party is another type of suicide, as they rarely take a principle stand without a real pressure form people and from parties as the NDP or the Green.   

Bloc Quebecois (BQ), Quebec Only Party, was a choice back then when it had a people interest in their agenda, and helped push the governments into decisions could help people needs. But this not anymore, as BQ became a party that lost their “raison d'être”, and now they exist just to be there, mostly stand for right-wing agenda, falsely wearing progressive face.

Voting for the NDP or Green, could be a good solution, but must be well calculated, as it could lead to a disaster of Conservative government majority or minority.

I believe that the best outcome of this election is a minority Liberal that can survive by a strong NDP, this could lead to best possible balanced government.

But how to achieve this?

This could be achieved by understanding what each political party stand for, and understanding the position of each individual candidate as well

Strategic vote ridding by ridding is our best option, this come through several possible scenarios, and must be calculated ridding by ridding, examples

-          We should vote for the Liberal Party candidate who is very strong in his positions from Human Rights and all our core values and is pushing their party to right direction.

-          When Liberal or Conservative candidate is wining with very big majority, (ex the winner has 25, 000 and the second has less than 10, 000) so the vote might not make difference but voting for the NDP will show higher percentage and give them better bargaining power

-          Serious competition between Liberal and Conservative, and the third party is very far, in this case we should vote for the Liberal Candidate, more chance to stop the Conservative

-          Serious competition between Liberal and NDP or Conservative and NDP, and the third party is very far, we should vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament

-          Three-way race, Liberal, Conservative and NDP are very close, I would vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament  

-          We can use Green instead of NDP in all these scenarios, if we believe that Green has better chance.

-          There are a few ridding where we should vote for the candidate that usually stand for the values, without consideration to any calculation, principles come first          

 

How to know the status and the statistics in each ridding?

-          Check Election Canada site it has all ridings result since federal elections started

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=pas&document=index&lang=e

-          Check 338 pool and statics https://338canada.com/

-          Check CBC pool tracker https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

-          History of the Federal Electoral Ridings, 1867-2010 https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ea8f2c37-90b6-4fee-857e-984d3060184e      

 

How to know the candidates position?

-          Check these links

o   Muslim Vote.ca #VoteGaza  https://muslimsvote.ca/

o    The Canadian Muslim Vote: https://www.canadianmuslimvote.ca/

o   Fair Vote Canada https://www.fairvote.ca/

o   Anything But Conservative (ABC) I don’t see them active this election

o   NCCM https://www.nccm.ca/elections-2025/

o   Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) https://www.cjpme.org/

o   Green Peace Canada https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/

 

-          Check the candidate history, on their social media and Canadian Parliament Sessions, if they were an ex-MP

o   Liberal campaign https://liberal.ca/

o   NDP campaign https://www.ndp.ca/

o   Green Campaign https://www.greenparty.ca//

o   Conservative campaign https://www.conservative.ca/

o   Bloc Quebecois campaign (French only)  https://www.blocquebecois.org/

 

Wishing all best luck and good choice, hope we elect who help in shaping better future.

Monday, July 1, 2024

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

 

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel*

Monday, July 1st, 2024


Canada that we have and Canada that we wish


While we celebrate Canada Day, we have to consider this day as a day of reflection to be sure that we understand the history of our country and to look forward for the future we wish to live and to leave to our children

We see Canada the land of freedom, prosperities, Human Rights and democracy, but we should look deeply, we should look back and to see how this country has been built to understand the reality and to make better future

Canada has been built on colonized land taken by force from the Native Canadians, who has been killed and tortured by the invaders, then hade been divided and named after the two then supper power “the French colonies” and “the British colonies” until confederation in 1867.

Even 1867 confederation didn’t correct this injustice, until now we didn’t give the Native Canadians their rights back, even after they willingly accepted that we share this land with them, some might say that we are better than the other two big colonies in USA and Australia, but this not enough and still not Just.

Yes, we are far better than South Africa before the collapse of the apartheid regime, and far better than the apartheid regime in the Palestinian land, but we did supported the apartheid in SA and we still supporting the apartheid in Palestine, and we still deal with the Native Canadians, the owner of this land through our superiority eyeglasses,

Our colonizing mentality drawn down from the white supremacy that is growing back in Europe and here at home, this mentality of the white supremacy didn’t go away as we wish and think, and we still dealing with the Natives at home and abroad through superiority perspective.

We pretend to believe in values but don’t apply it, we pretend to believe in democracy while supporting overthrowing democratically elected governments in the third world because they don’t serve our interest, we close our eyes to torture committed in many counties and put our economical and political interests before Human Rights, more to be said…. We even export our residential and industrial garbage to be stored or burned up on their land.

In home and abroad, we still tolerate discrimination as long as it is to our liking and fight others as it serve our interest


The Canada we want to live in and leave to our children is the one that “walk the talk”, and “practise what it preach”, not that the hypocritic one. One day we will have it, but it is not here today

 

Happy Canada Day, to Canada that we wish

 

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, and a recognized project manager professional (PMP), he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder and ex-Secretary General of The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), a co-founder and a board member of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD). He is a co-founder of the Egyptian Worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), the Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, and the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”. He is the ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF-FCM), a member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM).

 

He could be reached at 1-514-863-9202, e-mail: public@mohamedkamel.com, twitter: @mskamel, blog: http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/APresidentForEgypt/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3y4Hxgf05Xr0iDU68r8GQ

 

 

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Collectif Échec à la guerre et Voix juives indépendantes: À Gaza, un génocide est en cours.. 12-02-2023

 

 
Depuis une trentaine d'heures, Israël a repris sa guerre génocidaire contre la bande de Gaza. 
 
Nous employons le mot génocidaire à dessein et c'est pour alerter plus largement l'opinion publique québécoise à cet égard que le Collectif a publié ce matin, conjointement avec Voix juives indépendantes–Montréal, une demi-page dans l'édition papier du quotidien Le Devoir sous le titre À l'approche du 75è anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'Homme : À GAZA, UN GÉNOCIDE EST EN COURS ET LE CANADA EN EST COMPLICE. Nous avons également publié un plein écran de trois paragraphes dans l'édition tablette du Devoir, avec un lien vers la déclaration complète sur notre site.
 
 




La quasi-totalité des médias corporatifs, au Québec, au Canada et dans tous les pays occidentaux regardent ailleurs pendant que le crime ultime se déroule présentement à Gaza. Faisant fi de la véritable communauté internationale, ils ne rendent pas compte de l'extrême gravité de la situation et des alertes lancées par de nombreux experts à travers le monde et par les rapporteurs spéciaux des Nations Unies. Faisant fi de ce qui se passe dans leurs propres pays, ils ne rendent pas compte non plus du mouvement de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien, d'une ampleur sans précédent, engagé dans des actions quasi-quotidiennes de protestation, dont d'énormes manifestations chaque fin de semaine à Montréal et plusieurs autres villes. Des journalistes du réseau Bell Média ont même révélé que « des producteurs et des rédacteurs en chef de toutes les plateformes de Bell Media, la société mère de CTV, ont dénigré les invités palestiniens [et] ont dit aux employés que les manifestations appelant à un cessez-le-feu ne devaient pas faire l'objet d'un reportage ».
 
Face à cet aveuglement volontaire des médias grand public, alignés sur les positions du Gouvernement du Canada qui, lui aussi, regarde ailleursc'est à nous tous et toutes qu'il incombe de faire connaître la gravité de ce qui se passe présentement à Gaza et la complicité du Canada.
 
C'est pour cela que le Collectif a décidé qu'il était urgent de faire paraître cette demi-page dans Le Devoir (sans attendre les 2-3 semaines de plus qu'il aurait fallu pour recueillir des signatures et des contributions pour sa publication) et de le faire conjointement avec Voix juives indépendantes–Montréal.
 
Dans les prochaines semaines, nous allons aussi créer sur notre site Internet un espace où nous documenterons davantage la nature génocidaire de ce qui est présentement en cours à Gaza et les avis de nombreux experts à ce sujet.
 
Les multiples crimes contre l'humanité et l'entreprise génocidaire actuelle de l'État d'Israël doivent cesser. Exigeons la fin de la complicité canadienne!
 
Merci de faire circuler dans vos réseaux.
 
Solidairement, contre la guerre et le militarisme!
Martine Eloy et Raymond Legault, pour le Collectif Échec à la guerre
 
 

Pour suivre l'actualité du Collectif Échec à la guerre :
Notre adresse postale est :
Collectif Échec à la guerre
UPS Store 306, # 127
765 rue Beaubien Est
Montréal, QC,  H2S 1S8
N.B. Il n'y a pas de bureau du Collectif à cet endroit, ce n'est qu'une adresse postale.
 
ATTENTION : Si vous relayez ce message à d'autres personnes, assurez-vous de supprimer la portion ci-dessous (dans le message relayé). Sinon, vos destinataires pourraient VOUS désinscrire de cette liste en cliquant sur le dernier lien !

SI VOUS NE SOUHAITEZ PLUS RECEVOIR DE MESSAGES DE CE TYPE, utilisez le lien ci-dessous :
Pour vous désinscrire de cette liste

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Dear Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs Minister, by: Khaled Mouammar

Dear Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs Minister

 

A message from: Khaled Mouammar

Jun 28, 2023

 

The Israeli military has an entire territorial division with six brigades on the ground in the occupied West Bank to protect illegal settlers whose mere presence is a war crime according to Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the ICC.

It doesn’t make any sense that an army that can pinpoint suspected Palestinian activists in Nablus, a city of 170,000 people, cannot keep tabs on gangs of settlers operating in an area where the army has full control.

From June 20 to June 24, armed gangs of settlers committed 35 pogroms in the Palestinian villages of Turmus Ayya, Luban al-Gharbiyeh, Burqa, Kufr al-Dik, Birin, Kisan, Husan, Yasuf, Urif, Susya and Umm Safa as well as on the road between Nahalin and Jaba in the occupied West Bank. In many cases, Israeli soldiers accompanied settlers in their rampage and did little to restrain them and in some instances assisted the settlers.

 

Israeli officials pay lip service against settler pogroms in the occupied West Bank while in reality the settlers have always been able to commit these crimes because they have always been backed and protected by Israel’s occupation forces.

Four months after settlers committed a pogrom in the town of Hawara on February 26 torching homes, cars and shops and killing one Palestinian, Israel still has not prosecuted anyone suspected of taking part in the rampage although 17 settlers were suspected of involvement in the pogrom.

 

Military Intelligence can promptly track suspected Palestinian activists in the occupied West Bank and arrest or kill them but they will not arrest or prosecute gangs of settlers going on rampage.

Moreover, settlers are backed and protected by three top government officials who live in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich  who is also Minister responsible for Civil Administration in the West Bank lives in the settlement of Kedumim, Minister of National Missions Orit Strock  and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir live in a settlement in Hebron. All three have expressed support for settlers going on rampage.  So the only difference between this government and past ones is that it is out in the open.

Israel did not hesitate to commit a war crime by moving settlers into the occupied West Bank, to enable it to ultimately annex the West Bank, and its occupation forces are stationed there to protect those settlers. These occupation forces will not raise a hand when settlers attack Palestinians but they are quick to fire at Palestinians who defend themselves from settler attacks.

The temporary status of “occupation” of the Palestinian territories is now a permanent condition in which one state ruled by one group of people rules over another group of people

All the territory west of the Jordan River has constituted since 1967 a single state under Israeli rule, where the land and the people are subject to radically different legal regimes, and Palestinians are permanently treated as a lower caste.

As a result, it is no longer possible to avoid confronting a one-state apartheid reality. Canadian policymakers and analysts who ignore this one-state apartheid reality will be condemned to failure and irrelevance, doing little beyond providing a smokescreen for the entrenchment of the status quo that inflicts racism and pogroms on indigenous Palestinian Semites.

 

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Canadian Jews call on Canada to condemn Israeli minister's comments and take action


 

Donate to IJV or become a member
 
Adhérer ou faire un don