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Surprising twist

29 Aug 2024

By adding his influential name to the Trump presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) has expanded the crackpot dimension of the race for the White House. As popular...

Gaza, peace talks have been repeatedly sabotaged

25 Aug 2024

The outcome of yesterday’s escalation between Hizbollah and Israel has, as usual, been obscured by the fog of war. Israeli claims to have struck 100 Hizbollah rocket launchers ahead of...

High stakes campaign

22 Aug 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris should limit appearances alongside unpopular incumbent Joe Biden during her jolly, high stakes campaign to succeed him. Last Wednesday, he hovered beside her on the...

Gaza: Words are fine, but deeds decide peace

18 Aug 2024

Israel's war on Gaza and constant attacks in this region loom large on the agenda of the Democratic National Convention convening today in Chicago to confirm Kamala Harris and Tim...

Maintaining momentum

15 Aug 2024

US President Joe Biden did a huge favour to his successor as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and their party when he clung to the nomination until July 21st. Between...

Nearly 2 million Palestinians face death daily

11 Aug 2024

The threat of an Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen could recede if serious movement towards a Gaza ceasefire is achieved this week when Israeli and Hamas negotiators...

Verbal pyrotechnics

08 Aug 2024

Donald Trump has been confused, confounded and consternated since Vice President Kamala Harris succeeded fumbling, bumbling Joe Biden as the Democrat party’s candidate in the November election. Trump had designed...

Region suffers from a massive imbalance of power

04 Aug 2024

During the First Intifada, occupied East Jerusalem’s leader Faisal Husseini told me Palestinians could not follow the example of India’s Mahatma Gandhi by adopting peaceful means for resisting Israel’s occupation....

No Olympic Truce

01 Aug 2024

A week ago, the Paris Olympics opened to subversion and showers. While 850,000 people were affected by the disruption of French trains travelling from north, east, and west into the...

Kamala Harris’ entry galvanises Democrats

28 Jul 2024

Democrats have been energised and their Republican rivals confounded by the unexpected leap of Kamala Harris into the previously dull race for the US presidency. Donald Trump has mourned the...

Michael Jansen

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