AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Bricks of hope

22 May 2026

Teenage sisters from heavily bombed Gaza have won the United Nations regional Champions of the Earth Prize for turning rubble into eco-friendly bricks and have entered the competition for...

Trump has pushed US into a needless $30b war

18 May 2026

Lebanon’s government has once again declared May 25th a public holiday to commemorate the date in 2000 when the Israeli army unilaterally withdrew from the south after 18 years...

Century of wonder

14 May 2026

Naturalist, filmmaker, and environmental campaigner, twice knighted Sir David Attenborough celebrated his 100th birthday a week ago with his family and at a concert honouring him at the Royal...

CNN founder Ted Turner revolutionised TV journalism

10 May 2026

When the US attacked Iraq early in the morning on January 17th, 1991, The Irish Times night editor woke me up and demanded an analytical article. My husband Godfrey,...

Power and principle

07 May 2026

George and Amal Clooney are far more than just a handsome couple gracing the global scene. Film actor, producer, and director George Clooney and international lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney...

Denying Gazans a window on the world

03 May 2026

To maintain its tight blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israel's navy last week illegally intercepted 22 ships from the latest flotilla and arrested 175 crew and passengers from dozens...

Crisis presidency

30 Apr 2026

Last Saturday evening security agents seized an armed man outside the hotel ballroom where President Donald Trump was attending the annual dinner of the White House press corps. Although...

Hormuz, a strategic waterway key to talks

26 Apr 2026

Hopes faded of ending the US-Israel war with Iran as talks in Islamabad were cancelled, leaving the region and the world in limbo and oil and gas traffic halted...

Detained lives

23 Apr 2026

Global media has picked up reports that Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti has suffered three recent beatings by Israeli prison guards during the last month. Although such reports are...

Donald Trump knows nothing about war

19 Apr 2026

Since he failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a peacemaker, Donald Trump became a war president by joining Israel in its 12-day June campaign against Iran. Then...

Michael Jansen

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