AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

Yet another painful, serious security failure

01 Dec 2019

Last Friday’s attack in London by a 28-year old man, who had served time in prison for plotting detonate pipe bombs at the City’s stock exchange, demonstrated once again that...

Grave ramifications of Trump’s Syria pullout

25 Nov 2019

Last week the Pentagon issued a damning report on Donald Trump’s withdrawal of troops from northern Syria. The report, based on intelligence provided by the Defence Department’s investigation arm, said...

An eye for an eye

21 Nov 2019

A week ago, ousted US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified before the House of Representatives committee investigating charges which could lead to impeachment of the current occupant of the...

For Lebanese, the status quo has become unbearable

17 Nov 2019

Lebanon’s revolution has lasted two weeks longer than Egypt’s 18-day 2011 uprising. The reason for this state of political affairs was that the Lebanese army is not in a position...

Candidate business

14 Nov 2019

US businessman Michael Bloomberg’s potential entry into the Democratic Party’s race for the presidential nomination has created controversy and upset campaign managers of leading contenders. So far he has filled...

Michael Jansen

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