AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Trump’s re-election could be worse for Mideast

06 Nov 2024

Tuesday's US presidential and legislative elections could be a turning point for the worse for this region if Republican Donald Trump is victorious. A Trump administration would embolden Israel to...

Trump’s re-election could be worse for Mideast

03 Nov 2024

Tuesday's US presidential and legislative elections could be a turning point for the worse for this region if Republican Donald Trump is victorious. A Trump administration would embolden Israel to...

A fresh crisis

31 Oct 2024

Israel’s parliament voted on Monday to ban UNRWA, the UN agency caring for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, from operating in annexed East Jerusalem and occupied West Bank and Gaza....

Calls for de-escalation mount amid attacks

27 Oct 2024

Israel has claimed Saturday's airstrikes on Iran have crippled facilities producing long-range ballistic missiles and defence batteries protecting them. This has been seen by Israel's uncritical ally the US as...

Behind the times

24 Oct 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump have intensified campaigning in seven states ahead of the election on Nov.5. These are known as the “battleground” or...

Strikes on Gaza have gone up despite Sinwar’s death

20 Oct 2024

The US, UK, German and French leaders have said last week's death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar could be "an opportunity" to end the Gaza war since they had argued...

Warning win

17 Oct 2024

Japanese grassroots Nihon Hidankyo movement founded by survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks has won the Nobel Peace Prize. This has been touted as a warning not to use...

Attack on Iran’s N-sites would cross ‘regional red line’

13 Oct 2024

While the region awaits with trepidation over Tel Aviv's retaliation for Iran's October 1st mass ballistic missile launch at Israeli military bases, US officials believe Iran's military and energy infrastructure...

To endorse or not

10 Oct 2024

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing revolt by brave souls within his own party. After endorsing Democrat party challenger Vice President Kamala Harris, the most prominent Republican stalwart Liz...

No care for Palestinian suffering, deaths

06 Oct 2024

Israel missed its opportunity to avoid the carnage of the Hamas attack a year ago and end its forever wars during the 1980s and early 1990s. If Israel had then...

Michael Jansen

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