AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

This could be Turkey’s most crucial election

26 Mar 2023

Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary election campaign is gaining momentum ahead of the May 14th vote. Trailing in the polls and facing his first electoral defeat in two decades, President Recep...

Serious questions

23 Mar 2023

Since the 2003 disastrous US war on Iraq, anniversaries have prompted commentators to ask, “Where are the architects of the war?” This query is particularly pertinent now because the International...

What did the US gain from the Iraq war?

19 Mar 2023

Today is the 20th anniversary of the deadly and disastrous war US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld inflicted on Iraq. Victory would...

Restoring culture

16 Mar 2023

March 20 marks the twentieth anniversary of the US conquest of Iraq which has devastated its people, destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure, and has wreaked massive damage to its...

Israel’s airstrikes affect Syria quake victims, draw flak

12 Mar 2023

Israel’s airstrikes on Aleppo’s international airport early on March 7th, disrupting aid deliveries for victims of last month’s earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, elicited rare criticism from the US and...

Appalling violence

09 Mar 2023

Near constant Israeli “settler violence” spiked on the evening of Feb.26 when 300-400 illegal Israeli colonists burst into the West Bank town of Huwara, attacked Palestinians and torched 30 homes...

Erdogan could still win despite quake backlash

05 Mar 2023

Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections were originally scheduled for June 18th, the last date allowed, but in January President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to move voting forward by a month....

The carter way

02 Mar 2023

Jimmy Carter will be remembered at home and abroad as the best ex-president the US has ever had. He was the only one of four US presidential recipients of the...

How lobbies in US sway American policy

26 Feb 2023

To mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine, people around the world were subjected to a barrage of speeches by politicians extolling Kyiv’s brave stand against Moscow and...

A miscalculated war

23 Feb 2023

For the past year Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have been engaged in a long provoked war which never should have been waged. The war would...

Michael Jansen

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