AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

A proud story

25 Jul 2024

Eight Palestinian athletes, the largest number ever, are set to compete in the Paris Olympic Games beginning today. Two are middle distance runners, two are swimmers, and four take part...

The repercussions of the World Court verdict

22 Jul 2024

The resolution said a Palestinian state would pose ‘an existential danger (Israel), perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilise the region.’ This is nonsense, as Israel possesses the region’s most powerful...

Facing hidden dangers

18 Jul 2024

In an article in The Guardian, Haniya Albaiouny declared that she will be helping to “clear unexploded bombs in Gaza, my home. But I dread what I will find there”...

Hurdles to ceasefire prolonging Gaza conflict

14 Jul 2024

Israeli internal dissonance has halted Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo after three days. The Israeli negotiators would agree to provisions one day, go home to confer with Prime Minister Binyamin...

Mounting pressure

11 Jul 2024

Pressure is increasing on US President Joe Biden to end his bid for a second term due to the mental confusion and physical fragility he exhibited during the first presidential...

Pezeshkian may not end Iran’s Western-driven isolation

07 Jul 2024

The victory of centrist Masoud Pezeshkian in Iran’s snap presidential election has challenged the reign of hardline conservatives who dominate influential clerical bodies and the elected parliament. He replaces hardliner...

Michael Jansen

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