AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Deadly delays

16 May 2024

The $320 million floating pier built by the US to deliver humanitarian aid to 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is problematic. On March 6, President Joe Biden ordered the US...

Biden’s policy on Gaza conflict ‘unpopular,’ say polls

12 May 2024

US President Joe Biden has learned the hard way not to grant Israel full freedom when waging war against the Palestinians. Like his predecessor Ronald Reagan when Israel invaded Lebanon...

Loud and clear

09 May 2024

On April 17, Columbia University students launched the anti-Gaza war protest heard around the world. They established encampments on the campus to demand an end to Israel’s war and university...

Rafah offensive will have ‘catastrophic’ results

05 May 2024

Rafah or no Rafah? That is the question. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains committed to his offensive in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city located on the border with Egypt. He...

Raising support

02 May 2024

Despite political deadlock and economic meltdown, Lebanon is set to send in coming days 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian to the Egyptian port of Al-Arish for delivery to war-devastated Gaza. Palestinian...

Mass student protests demand urgent ceasefire in Gaza

28 Apr 2024

Mass student protests against Israel’s Gaza onslaught rolling across US university campuses from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans are the first ever demonstrations against a war not involving US...

Infusion of arms

25 Apr 2024

The US House of Representatives passed long-delayed bipartisan legislation providing $87 billion in largely military aid to Israel and Ukraine despite strong opposition from the Republican party, which has the...

Trump: The first president to face criminal prosecution

21 Apr 2024

Donald Trump’s fraud trial opens today in an uncongenial, cold Manhattan court room. The trial was delayed from March 25th, but his request for further postponement was denied. It had...

The West should have exerted maximum pressure on Israel

14 Apr 2024

Ignoring rising tensions spooking Israelis, the US, and regional players fearing Tehran’s retaliation for Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iran opted for unprecedented military action. This was...

Heritage lost

11 Apr 2024

On April 9, 2003, the US army occupied Baghdad and ousted the government of Saddam Hussein. Washington’s 31-day war on Iraq not only toppled the man who had ruled that...

Michael Jansen

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