AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Heritage under siege

27 Nov 2025

Israel’s occupation regime is set to expropriate 1,800 dunums (about 450 acres) of privately owned land in the northern West Bank for the development of an archaeological dig at...

Trump’s G-20 boycott casts long negative shadow

23 Nov 2025

The world's champion chaser of headlines Donald Trump lost personal credibility when he boycotted the G-20 summit attended by 42 countries and institutions in South Africa on the weekend....

Withering roots

20 Nov 2025

Israeli settler attacks have combined with global warming to shrink this year’s olive crop in the occupied West Bank, threatening the very existence of Palestinian farmers on their land....

Syria investors wary despite US normalisation

16 Nov 2025

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's visit to the White House normalised relations between Damascus and Washington but left Israel out of the equation. The traditional slogan used to be, 'There...

Echoes of power

13 Nov 2025

The death last week of former US Vice President Dick Cheney preceded Iraq’s parliamentary election, the seventh since the 2003 US war which was championed by Cheney. The coincidence...

Mamdani becomes New York’s youngest ever mayor

09 Nov 2025

Zohran Mamdani, 34, is set to become the youngest mayor of New York City since 1892, the first of Indian background, the first Muslim and the first born in...

Holiday mode

06 Nov 2025

The United States is entering the annual holiday season with a series of celebrations which produce an overlapping jumble of manifestations. Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes have ushered...

Freedom of jailed Ocalan seen crucial for peace

02 Nov 2025

Militants of the Turkish Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have begun to withdraw from Turkey to the Kurdish autonomous provinces in northern Iraq following a May agreement to end their...

Director detained

30 Oct 2025

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is a Palestinian paediatrician who served as director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital from February 2024 until it was closed down and evacuated by Israel...

Complete ceasefire in Gaza is the need of the hour

26 Oct 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu won’t know what to do with himself and his war cabinet now that Donald Trump has ordered a ceasefire and end to the war...

Michael Jansen

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