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Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Social and political sciences Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His columns on international politics feature regularly in the Mexican daily La Jornada. His latest book is China irrumpe en Latinoamérica: ¿dragón o panda? (Orfila, 2012).

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Israel Ready to Drop Nuclear Bombs on Iran’s Peaceful Nuclear Facilities, Scott Ritter Says

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 15 October 2024

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter claims that Israel is about to bomb Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities. If true, it would risk a conventional bombing of its military nuclear power plant in Dimona. That would mean an escalation to world war. Unless an arrangement is already being negotiated.

Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the succession in this country and the invasion of Lebanon

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 4 July 2024

The reception of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a joint session of the U.S. Congress is not just an operation against President Joe Biden, it is also an endorsement of Israel’s parliamentary majority in its continuation of the massacre in Gaza. What’s more, given Netanyahu’s (…)

Attacking Lebanon to nuclearize Iran

Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US support?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 27 June 2024

The threat of Israeli aggression against Lebanon grows stronger every day. Yet there is no doubt that Hezbollah has far greater conventional resources than Israel. Hence the hypothesis that Tel Aviv could use tactical atomic bombs, such as those already tested during the Saudi war against Yemen. (…)

Soros/Biden vs. Netanyahu/Trump

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 10 June 2024

The judicial sentence pronounced in Washington against the Republican candidate Donald Trump openly contradicts the precedent that the case of the Democratic candidate John Edwards had established in 2012. But, contrary to what one might think at first glance, this rigged trial is not an (…)

Israel and the United States are the big losers; the winners are the Iranians, says John Mearsheimer

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 31 May 2024

The Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus will not have had the effect Tel Aviv hoped for. On the contrary, Tehran took advantage of this provocation to demonstrate the superiority of its hypersonic missiles, which are impossible to intercept, even for the United States.

Will Israel’s invasion of Rafah trigger a regional war including Egypt?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 31 May 2024

The international press disregards Israel’s serious breach of the Camps David Accords with the IDF taking control of the Rafah-Egypt border post without crossing the Gaza Strip, by invading the Philadelphia corridor. Cairo, however, immediately considered that Tel Aviv had declared war on it. If (…)

The world economic order is falling apart

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 17 May 2024

The narrative about the economic and financial crisis of the West has little to do with reality. It will, nevertheless, urgently force the United States to make an existential decision.

Non-Semite (sic) Khazar Netanyahu calls US anti-genocidal academics "anti-Semites" (sic)

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 3 May 2024

The term "Semite", which originally applied to Arabs, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim now refers to Jews, whether Semitic (Sephardic) or European (Ashkenazi). Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, mocking this semantic shift, criticizes Benjamin Netanyahu’s propaganda tricks.

Iran’s hypersonic missiles generate deterrence through terror, says Scott Ritter

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 22 April 2024

Despite the Israeli propaganda campaign to persuade Western media that the Iranian response didn’t cause any damage, the truth is emerging. Tehran did not seek to attack the Israeli civilian population, but to test the IDF defenses. For the first time, it used hypersonic missiles that neither (…)

Anatomy of genocide

Netanyahu’s Masada syndrome and the UN report by Francesca Albanese

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 7 April 2024

The massacre of 33,000 Palestinian civilians by Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet, followed by his refusal to take the steps ordered by the International Court of Justice, and finally his refusal to comply with the demands of Security Council Resolution 2728, are reminiscent of the Masada (…)

Under surveillance

Jared Kushner’s cruel shenanigans with Gaza’s beaches

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 1 April 2024

Jared Kushner’s horrifying remarks about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine were made at Harvard last month, but only came to light this week. Just as candidate Donald Trump (Kushner’s father-in-law) was giving an interview to Israel Hayom, the pro-Netanyahu free daily. Clearly, the Trump clan, (…)

Trump’s strategy against Russia and China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 November 2018

The war in Syria has shown that when it comes to conventional weapons, the US Armed Forces are no longer the top dog. Russia is now in control. Moscow has brought a new resource onto the war pitch: the most recent generation of hypersonic nuclear carriers. This introduction should see Russia (…)

Xi Jinping: the Geo-Economic Emperor with a 15 year head start

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 4 November 2017

While the Western Press mocks the Grand Mass of the Chinese Communist Party’s Congress, Alfredo Jalife is taking President Xi’s announcements very seriously. Far from comparing him to an emperor, Jalife sees him as one of the senior officials that have made China “millénaire”. Jalife observes (…)

Brexit coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s entry into the SCO

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 July 2016

Professor Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, reputed to be a leading Latin American expert in geopolitics considers that the UK exiting the EU at the same time India and Pakistan become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (OCS) is an acid test, proving that the world is alive. De-globalization (…)

From the "Yinon Plan" to the "Ya’alon Strategy"

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 24 November 2014

While the United States on the one hand, and France and Turkey on the other, are trying to reshape the Levant in their own way, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme highlights the continuity between the 1982 Oded Yinon Plan and Moshe Ya’alon’s present-day strategy. While endorsing the vision of both plans, (…)

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