AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Trump’s action on Soleimani personal in nature

05 Jan 2020

Donald Trump took the decision to slay Iran’s Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani for personal reasons rather than in defence of the US. Trump’s two predecessors George W. Bush and...

A means to an end

02 Jan 2020

Although a poor potential candidate, former US vice president Joe Biden remains front runner for the Democratic party’s nomination to stand against Republican Donald Trump in the November 2020 presidential...

The huge, rightful uprising must succeed

29 Dec 2019

If acted upon, the threat to resign issued by President Barham Salih would plunge Iraq into even greater peril than the country is already experiencing. He warned that he would...

The dominant force

26 Dec 2019

The country with the second largest population of Muslims, India is set to alienate not only its own Muslims but the entire global Ummah. This became clear last week when...

Palestinians have no happy endings; no one cares

22 Dec 2019

World-famous authors of children’s stories, Charles Dickens and Dr Seuss wrote about sour characters called Scrooge and The Grinch who despised or tried to steal Christmas. That is, of course,...

Labour of love?

19 Dec 2019

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lost December’s Brexit election because he sat on the fence over Britain’s exit from the European Union. An old fashioned euro sceptic, Corbyn did not like...

Johnson win is another slide to the right

15 Dec 2019

The landslide victory of Britain’s Conservative Party in last week’s general election confirms, once again, the global slide to the right. Boris Johnson, set to be prime minister for the...

Writing to Freedom | Michael Jansen

13 Dec 2019

Former editor of the leading Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, Can Dundar is speaking out against the suppression of independent journalists and media by the government. Dundar can speak freely only because...

All eyes on Lebanon meeting in Paris

08 Dec 2019

Speaking at last Friday’s symposium in Cyprus on the Syrian Crisis and its impacts on the region, former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel said the rising in his country is “the...

Boot on the other foot

05 Dec 2019

Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has projected itself to the world as a liberal democratic state, although it was founded on war, ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of...

Michael Jansen

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