AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Israel has been gunning for UNRWA for decades

28 Jan 2024

Israel timed its accusations against employees of the UN agency caring for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to have the most explosive effect. Israel’s accusation that UNRWA staff had taken part in...

Tunisian cuisine

25 Jan 2024

Arab cuisine has many forms and flavours. From the Emirates in the East to Morocco in the West dishes, both, elaborate and simple, have been determined for millennia by local...

Israeli PM accused of ‘selling illusions’ over Gaza

21 Jan 2024

Rifts over Israel’s conduct in the war on Gaza are growing between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden as well as within the Israeli government and...

The Mandela affect

18 Jan 2024

Ask not why South Africa has accused Israel the crime of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Nelson Mandela is...

American govt staff voice Gaza anger, to hold strike

14 Jan 2024

US government employees plan to observe a one-day strike tomorrow to protest President Joe Biden’s pro-Israel policies which have kept the Gaza war going for more than 100 days. He...

The long race

11 Jan 2024

While President Joe Biden has belatedly entered the November race for the White House, his one-term rival Donald Trump has never stopped campaigning for re-election ever since Biden won in...

The killing of Saleh Arouri was predictable

07 Jan 2024

Saturday’s salvo of Hizbollah rockets targeting the Meron Israeli military surveillance base on Mount Jarmaq in northern Israel was the initial response for Israel’s assassination in Beirut last week of...

Dangerous dances

04 Jan 2024

A 70-year-old provincial fishmonger has challenged a ban on singing and dancing imposed Iran’s conservative clerics and won. Dressed in a white suit Sadegh Bana Motejaded dances in the market...

Globally dominant West has failed to stop wars

31 Dec 2023

In his brief 2024 New Year message UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres summed up the sorry state of the world during the past 12 months. He stated, “2023 has been...

Failing efforts

28 Dec 2023

Where is Cindy McCain? She became the director of the World Food Programme (WFP) in April but is rarely seen trying to raise awareness of the rapidly growing number of...

Michael Jansen

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