AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

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....

Michael Jansen

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