AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Year 2020 poll rivals set to conquer White House once again

17 Mar 2024

Four out of five US citizens do not favour a Biden-Trump rematch in November’s presidential election and do not want either to win the presidency for a second term. This...

Famous and infamous

14 Mar 2024

Christopher Nolan’s film, “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the “father of the atomic bomb,” has gathered seven Oscar as well as Baftas, Golden Globes and other film awards, gripped cinema goers...

Emirati-Europe backed Gaza aid ship is a heroic step

11 Mar 2024

The Emirati-Europe backed Cypriot maritime humanitarian aid corridor from Cyprus to Gaza is an essential emergency measure to provide food, water, and medicine for starving, sick, and shelter less Palestinians...

Expulsion fail

07 Mar 2024

Last month, Knesset members from the ruling right-wing religious-nationalist coalition failed to expel far-left colleague Ofer Cassif over his support for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) case charging Israel...

Trump’s legal battles do not affect his White House race

03 Mar 2024

Donald Trump’s campaign for re-election will continue normally due to his appeal to the US Supreme Court to consider his claim to presidential immunity from prosecution over his efforts to...

Anti-corruption campaigner

29 Feb 2024

Western politicians and media are filled with condemnations of the Kremlin over the Feb.16 mysterious death in a Siberian maximum-security prison of Russia’s pre-eminent dissident Alexei Navalny. The Russian authorities...

Time has come for ‘profound reform’ of institutions

25 Feb 2024

Michael Jansen, Political Correspondent The Arabs were largely indifferent to or detached from the distant Ukraine-Russia war which has preoccupied the US and the West for two years. During their...

Taking a stand

22 Feb 2024

Israel’s prolonged Gaza war has inspired Arab and Muslim US citizens to boycott members of the Biden administration which they hold accountable for nearly 30,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and...

Iran marks 45 years of the Islamic Revolution

18 Feb 2024

Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on February 10th with speeches, mass gatherings, displays of military hardware, and the traditional chants, “Death to America” and “Death to...

Crucial help

15 Feb 2024

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and its commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini have been shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize despite Israeli efforts to close the agency...

Michael Jansen

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