AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Controversies, covid and consternation

10 Feb 2022

Last Friday’s splendid opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games, which coincide with the Chinese New Year symbolised by the tiger, launched 16 days of events that are gripping...

Operation against Qurayshi a good PR exercise for Biden

06 Feb 2022

US President Joe Biden hailed the demise of Daesh leader Abu Ibrahim Al Qurayshi during a US commando raid in Syria’s north-western Idlib province as a major victory in...

Dire conditions

03 Feb 2022

The Daesh attack that sparked the uprising by detainees at the Ghwayran Kurdish-run prison in the northern Syrian city of Hasakeh has reminded the world of catastrophic conditions suffered by...

Syria has to extricate itself from warfare

30 Jan 2022

The attacks on an army post in north-eastern Iraq and the Kurdish prison in Hasaka in northern Syria appear to mark the resurgence of Daesh in the countries where the...

Off the radar

27 Jan 2022

Deprived of the presidency by an election he still claims was fraudulent, citizen Donald Trump plays golf with visitors from Washington and members at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach,...

Joe Biden’s policies badly dent his popularity

23 Jan 2022

US President Joe Biden’s grades on his one-year report card are mixed but his approval rating has fallen from 56 per cent at his inauguration in January 2021 to 41...

A firm stance

20 Jan 2022

More than 40 film stars have supported Harry Potter actress Emma Watson after she was sharply rebuked by Israeli officials for expressing solidarity with Palestinians on social media. The British...

Game over for Novak’s anti-vaccine serve

16 Jan 2022

Three Federal Court judges put an end to a two-week media feast by cancelling a visa for Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic who had set his cap at winning another...

Up in arms

14 Jan 2022

An online petition signed by more than a million people has urged the current British prime minister to call on the Queen to revoke the knighthood awarded to Tony Blair,...

No room for defeat in Trump’s ego

09 Jan 2022

Writing in the Washington Post, self-identified conservative columnist Max Boot cited President Joe Biden’s comment in his January 6th address in the Capitol that Donald Trump “has created and spread...

Michael Jansen

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