AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Trump abandons Mediterranean ‘Riviera’ plan in Gaza

15 Sep 2025

The Arabs have won a key political battle in Israel’s unending war on Gaza. Under Arab pressure US President Donald Trump has abandoned his regionally and globally rejected proposal...

Venice hears Gaza

11 Sep 2025

Israel’s war on Palestinians has migrated from television news to feature films appearing at festivals in Venice and Toronto. Gaza war film the “The Voice of Hind Rajab” by...

Trump upends US institutions, policies to assert authority

08 Sep 2025

Last week’s summit of leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was intended to challenge the post-Soviet global order which has been led by the erratic United States under...

Shutting out Palestine

04 Sep 2025

The Trump administration’s decision to deny visas for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation to attend the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly violates the headquarters...

Those complicit in ‘genocide’ planning Palestinians’ future

31 Aug 2025

Last week's White House meeting to discuss a post-war plan for Gaza was unlikely to reassure Palestinians and Arabs who were not invited. The meeting was attended by ex-British...

Unforgettable heroes

28 Aug 2025

Just 9.7 kilometres wide for two-thirds of its length of 33.7 kilometres, most of Gaza is a front line in the war Israel is waging on the strip. This...

Pressure could mount on US, Israel over Gaza famine

24 Aug 2025

During his first term in office, Donald Trump made his first foreign visit in May to Saudi Arabia where he met with King Salman and Arab and Muslim leaders...

Serving under siege

21 Aug 2025

Israel last week geared up to invade and reoccupy the whole of Gaza on the 20th anniversary of the Aug.15 beginning of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from...

Recognition of Palestinian state will ultimately mean ‘Lesser Israel’

17 Aug 2025

In a television interview broadcast last week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu admitted he 'feels a connection' to a 'vision' of 'Greater Israel,' an aspiration long cherished by the...

Icy ground

14 Aug 2025

It is fitting that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump should meet today in Alaska. The largest US state, Alaska was purchased in 1867 from...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.