AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

There should have been no attack on workers

08 Apr 2024

The dark dragons of double standards raised its ugly head a week ago when the Israeli army slew seven members of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) team in Gaza after...

Perilous crossings

04 Apr 2024

A second convoy of vessels carrying 400 tons of food aid to 300,000 starving Palestinians in war-ravaged northern Gaza set sail on Saturday from the Cypriot port of Larnaca along...

Yet another challenge for Binyamin Netanyahu

31 Mar 2024

While fighting a war on the Gaza and Lebanese fronts, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has faced down his latest domestic challenge. The issue is exemption from military service for...

No end in sight

28 Mar 2024

Ramadan in Gaza is the Ramadan of the second Palestinian Nakba, the Catastrophe wrought by Israel’s 1948 war of establishment when between 10-12,000 Palestinians were killed, around 800 estimated to...

Call for ‘Free Palestine’ and an end to the war

24 Mar 2024

There is a dangerous disconnect between the Israeli public and the rest of the world over the Gaza war. Most Israelis see and hear reports which cater to their views...

Compassionate ties

21 Mar 2024

Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar flew to Boston and Washington last week to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day which falls on March 17, his country’s national day, as is traditional with...

Michael Jansen

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