AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Roots and Runners

15 Aug 2019

Profiles of Western white male supremacists are very similar to profiles of young men recruited by Daesh, al-Qaeda and fellow radicals. Many if not most of these men are uneducated...

Trump’s acts have simply stoked Daesh’s revival

11 Aug 2019

Michael Jansen, Political Correspondent The Pentagon’s inspector general has issued a report saying that Daesh, which still can field 14,000 to 18,000 fighters, is reviving in Syria and Iraq....

The real curse

08 Aug 2019

The tragic death of 22-year old Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a grandniece of slain President John Kennedy, has reminded the US and the world that the US was once led by...

UN Relief and Works Agency must continue its work

04 Aug 2019

UNRWA, the UN agency providing for Palestinian refugees has always had a precarious existence because Israel and its allies have insisted the refugees must be integrated by host countries and...

The sinking city

01 Aug 2019

Venice is responding to siege by tourists by deporting visitors who violate recently-introduced rules governing their behaviour. Last week two German backpackers were fined $1,058 (Dhs3,886) and told to leave...

Ankara’s position on Syria is far from healthy

28 Jul 2019

Ankara’s policies on Syria over the past eight years have been disastrous for that country, the region and Turkey itself. At every stage of the crisis that has enveloped Syria,...

Skirting Conflagration

26 Jul 2019

The newly-elected top European Union (EU) leaders who take office on Nov.1 are no more likely to adopt and implement region-friendly policies than their predecessors were. The constraints remain the...

Britain’s anger over tanker’s seizure is misplaced

21 Jul 2019

Britain’s outrage over the seizure by Iranian naval commandos of an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz is misplaced. Britain launched the tanker-snatching competition on July 4th when Royal...

Up in arms

19 Jul 2019

Four months after the March massacre of 51 Muslim men, women and children in two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, gun owners have begun exchanging military-style semi-automatic weapons...

Trump is a monarch and not president

14 Jul 2019

Donald Trump’s contradictory foreign policies have angered, alarmed and, even, amused both world leaders and concerned citizens who follow his antics and pronouncements in public events and via twitter. Since...

Michael Jansen

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