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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).

229 articles

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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 (...)

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, (...)

What do wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria and Libya have in common ?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 8 August 2014

For Mexican geopolitical expert, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, the simultaneity of the events illuminates their meaning: soon after announcing the creation of an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that is to say the dollar, Russia is having to face at the same time the (...)

Blackstone and Jacob Rothschild, beneficiaries of Malaysia Airlines flight disappearance ?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

27 April 2014

The international search for missing flight MH 370 showed that Washington was able to track the aircraft well beyond what it has admitted so far and that it waited a week before revealing what it knew. The search also showed that China lacks the refuelling ports to deploy its navy over such a (...)

"The world under a microscope"

Mohamed Morsi repositions Egypt

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 1 September 2012

Westerners have underestimated Egypt’s return to the international scene. They have not perceived the failure of "containing" Iran and Tehran’s skilful diplomacy in removing the Muslim Brotherhood from Saudi influence. Alfredo Jalife describes this rapid evolution which changes, in part, the (...)

"The world under a microscope"

A G-20 en route to balkanization

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 2 July 2012

The meetings have been coming at high speed for world leaders. After the NATO summit and the G8 in Chicago and just before the Earth Summit in Rio, then the EU summit in Brussels in late June, Alfredo Jalife analyses the G20 meeting that took place in Mexico on 18-19 June. According to him, (...)

Post-Sarkozy : Revolt against the Euro and alliance with the BRICS?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 22 May 2012

For Alfredo Jalife, Nicolas Sarkozy’ascent to power in France has considerably weakened Europe and strengthened the Tel-Aviv-London-Washington axis. Now that a new geopolitical balance is forming around new gas delivery routes, will European nations be able to seize the opportunity emerging (...)

Obama’s strategic pivot: Military deglobalization and containment of China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 17 January 2012

Mexican political analyst Alfredo Jalife-Rahme analyzes the recent Pentagon and White House strategic and budgetary options. While an extremist fringe continues to nurture the unaffordable dream of US domination over the entire globe, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in line (...)

Putin’s return marks Russia’s geostrategic shift

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

5 October 2011

The announcement that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plan to switch positions in March is being portrayed by the international press in terms of personal relations between the two men. For Mexican analyst Alfredo Jalife, reducing Russian policy to these two (...)

Will Israel attack Lebanon to steal its gas?

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 22 August 2010

The existence of vast gas and oil reserves off the coasts of Cyprus, Lebanon, Gaza ... and Israel is no longer a secret. Considering the appetites and methods of the Tel Aviv Government, the possibility of sharing that common wealth appears to be remote. According to Mexican geo-political (...)