AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Trump has kept woes of Gazans on the back-burner

01 Jun 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s expansion of Israel’s control of Gaza from 60 to 70 per cent is a violation not only of the repeatedly breached October 10th, 2023,...

Turning East

29 May 2026

All roads lead to Beijing these days. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited China in April, meeting with President Xi Jinping and...

World Central Kitchen resilient on Gaza

25 May 2026

The World Central Kitchen (WCK) has reverted to the level before last October’s ceasefire for delivering hot meals to Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians. The WCK said the decision to...

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...

Michael Jansen

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