AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

US, Israel’s nefarious moves to shut down UNRWA

10 Nov 2019

The UN agency caring for Palestinian refugees is facing its greatest challenge in its precarious 70 years of existence. Last week the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works...

Bane of the Brexiteers

07 Nov 2019

Gina Miller is a businesswoman who has won two Brexit-related legal cases against Britain’s government, altering strategies devised by the Conservative Party to achieve the country’s withdrawal from the European...

External powers scramble to retain sway in Syria

03 Nov 2019

As a first step in Syria’s renewed peace process, talks on a constitution began last week in Geneva although fighting rages across the north of the country and external powers...

Roses and Rights

31 Oct 2019

Women have been in the vanguard of Lebanon’s protests and have formed human barricades against violent opponents of anti-government demonstrations, fearing clashes and the transformation of peaceful rallies into riots....

Hollow promises underpin protests in Iraq, Lebanon

27 Oct 2019

Mass demonstrations continue in Lebanon and Iraq with protesters demanding the fall of their governments, removal of and accountability for corrupt politicians, and an end to the secular systems of...

Artefacts show Palestine’s rich culture and history

25 Oct 2019

Shortly before the 2008-09 devastating Israeli war on Gaza, I visited a small private museum, then the only museum in Gaza. “Al-Madhaf” had been established by Jawdat Khoudary, a contractor,...

Mistrust, frustration keep Lebanon on the boil

20 Oct 2019

Tens of thousands of Lebanese have taken to the streets across Lebanon to vent their anger against the country’s economic and political crisis. They have adopted the slogan of the...

Trump’s decisions are changing the political landscape

18 Oct 2019

Donald Trump’s presidency has been disastrous for this region. He has taken three ignorant, snap decisions which have had terrible short-term consequences and are in the process of changing the...

When Trump capitulated to Turkish pressure

13 Oct 2019

Both the current occupant of the White House, Donald Trump, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are courting their electoral “bases” by taking ruinous decisions on north-eastern Syria. Trump gave...

Pelosi is risking the loss of both presidential and legislative elections next fall

11 Oct 2019

During his fight to remain in the White House, it is just and fitting that Donald Trump, a political neophyte, should battle Nancy Pelosi, a woman long-versed in the ways...

Michael Jansen

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