AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

Sanctions hit aid for beleaguered Syrians

19 Feb 2023

Donations from crisis-ridden Lebanon yesterday continued to flow into Syria for victims of the devastating February 6th earthquakes which killed 46,000 in Turkey and Syria. At least 16 Lebanese were...

Destruction upon destruction

16 Feb 2023

The deadly and destructive 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria on Feb.6 was among the most powerful in recent history. The last quake of that magnitude...

Quake a further jolt to Erdogan’s image

12 Feb 2023

The deadly and devastating earthquakes in Turkey may create a political upheaval in that country if President Recep Tayyip fails to deliver speedy aid to quake victims. The sole declared...

A brazen violation

09 Feb 2023

The removal by Republican majority leader Kevin McCarthy of the sole Muslim woman of colour, Ilhan Omar, from the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs was a blow...

Tories taking one wrong decision after another

06 Feb 2023

Britain marked two events last week, the second anniversary of its divorce from the European Union (Brexit) and 100 days of the premiership of Rishi Sunak. Half a million public...

Michael Jansen

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