AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

A controversial move

30 Jul 2020

Once proclaimed a “moderate democrat,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become an immoderate autocrat bent on boosting his personal power both at home and abroad. On the domestic front,...

Netanyahu has shattered the two-state pipe dream

26 Jul 2020

The “one-state solution” for the Palestine/Israel dispute has come back into fashion because it is at long last admitted that the “two-state solution” has been buried under the millions of...

The inside story

23 Jul 2020

Mary Trump is a courageous woman. She has taken on her notorious uncle Donald who uses the Oval Office of the White House to bully and smear detractors and critics. She mounted her...

Netanyahu’s Covid management a ‘humiliating failure’

19 Jul 2020

Israel’s second wave of coronavirus infections should serve as a warning to global governments seeking to open schools in coming weeks. Israel’s Covid-19 cases have soared to 50,000, with nearly...

Catastrophic circumstances

16 Jul 2020

In June Medicines San Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started supporting the Covid-19 treatment centre at the Shaikh Zayyed Hospital in rebel-held Sana’a, the capital of war, disease and famine ravaged...

Iran vulnerable to sabotage on several fronts

12 Jul 2020

Half a dozen explosions and fires over the past six weeks at Iranian nuclear, armaments, and electricity facilities and a hospital in north Tehran have rattled the government and shaken...

The Divided States of America

10 Jul 2020

Last weekend’s commemorations of the holiday marking the founding of the US 244 years ago was like none which had gone before. Division rather than unity marked July the 4th....

Palestinian factions joining forces not a reconciliation

05 Jul 2020

The decision by Fatah and Hamas to join forces to resist Israel’s annexation of portions of the West Bank and “topple” Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” could be a...

A history of hardships

03 Jul 2020

The American University of Beirut, the region’s oldest and most prestigious foreign institution of higher learning, is facing three existential challenges: the collapse of Lebanon’s economy, the stinginess of the ignorant, malevolent...

Israel does not think Palestinian Lives Matter

28 Jun 2020

British statesman Winston Churchill once said people should not be praised for not doing something they should not have done in the first place. This certainly fits the election campaign...

Michael Jansen

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