AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Gaza war shuts down Bethlehem, Jerusalem

24 Dec 2023

The little West Bank town of Bethlehem has cancelled all but religious observances this Christmas. The tall evergreen tree near the Church of the Nativity where tradition holds Jesus was...

Targeted artifacts

21 Dec 2023

A shake up of senior staff of the British Museum was completed with last week’s departure of deputy director Sir Jonathan Williams. Director Hartwig Fischer resigned in August after a...

Lebanon’s economic and social crises target children

17 Dec 2023

Lebanon’s overlapping political, economic and social crises continue to target the country’s children. Relying on data collected last Month, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, argues these crises negatively impact every...

Loose cannon

14 Dec 2023

In addition to campaigning for re-election Democrat US President Joe Biden is fighting off impeachment efforts by Congressional Republicans who cite his possible implication in the illegal activities of his...

West’s support for Ukraine war is declining

10 Dec 2023

Joe Biden’s Ukraine war has failed to progress as planned. After recapturing the eastern Kharkiv region and its capital city Kherson at the end of last year, Ukrainian forces have...

Environmental campaigner

07 Dec 2023

It was fitting that Britain’s King Charles III should sponsor and deliver the opening address at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai a week ago. He said the...

Kissinger’s death stirs fresh controversy

03 Dec 2023

Reviled by many for his bloody legacy and respected by others for a realpolitik approach to foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 last week has stirred fresh controversy. While...

Trump could win US polls as Biden’s image sags

27 Nov 2023

Since October 7th, Biden has given full backing to Israel’s deadly and devastating war on Gaza. He has divided his Democrat party by alienating young, Arab, and Muslim voters who...

Act of love

23 Nov 2023

British film director Ridley Scott launched “Napoleon” last week at a world premier in the grand Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. The large screen film went on cinema release...

Violence in other world troublespots too

19 Nov 2023

Violence in the world’s hotspots has soared while international attention has zoomed in on Israel’s war on Gaza. Prior to this deadly and devastating offensive, the focus had been on...

Michael Jansen

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