AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

The presidential race

17 Jun 2021

Iranians go to the polls today to elect its eighth president to succeed moderate reformist Hassan Rouhani. Turn-out is expected to be a low 37-42 per cent. Many Iranians have vowed...

Covid 19: We need a global vaccination plan

13 Jun 2021

The pledge to donate one billion doses of Covid vaccines for the world’s poor made by the Cornish summit of the Group of Seven (“G7”) wealthy democracies has been criticised...

A daunting agenda

11 Jun 2021

The exclusive club, dubbed the “Group of Seven,” wealthy democracies is set to hold its annual summit this weekend at a posh hotel at Carbis Bay, St. Ives, in Cornwall....

‘Change’ will not change Palestine-Israel situation

06 Jun 2021

The Israeli Knesset, which emerged after the March election this year, is a fractured body with 13 parties, a number often considered unlucky. This time, perhaps, it will be unlucky...

In the hotseat

03 Jun 2021

Once again a UN Human Rights Commissioner has gone against the Western powers by castigating Israel for inflicting disproportionate deaths and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza in response to rockets...

Iran polls: Conservatives key power centre

30 May 2021

By restricting the field of candidates for the upcoming presidential election in Iran, the conservative clerical establishment has not only tightened the hardliners’ grip on power but also narrowed the...

A raging conflict

27 May 2021

Before the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Gaza Strip was peaceful coastal bridge between Egypt and the Levant. In his memoir, Palestinian author Edward Said wrote of boyhood drives...

It is time to take stock of what happened

23 May 2021

Now that flights of Israeli bombs and Hamas rockets have stalled, it is time to take stock of what happened over the 11 days in May which have challenged world...

United in rejection

20 May 2021

Several years ago I went to the town of Ramleh in central Israel to interview a Palestinian woman employed by the New Israel Fund, a human rights organisation working for...

Biden also caves in to Israel’s inhuman plans

16 May 2021

People in this region heaved a sigh of relief when Democrat Joe Biden took over the White House from Republican Donald Trump but Biden has failed to alter the destructive...

Michael Jansen

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