AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Israel cannot afford to transform Lebanon into another Gaza

29 Sep 2024

Teams of Israeli military strategists, tacticians and intelligence operatives have long planned their campaign against Lebanon’s Hizbollah. Its opening of a second front in Israel’s deadly and devastating Gaza war...

A Biden Burden

26 Sep 2024

Joe Biden’s approval rating stands at 39.5 per cent while 55.3 per cent disapprove of his cumulative actions and policies while in the White House. All six presidents who preceded...

Israel's existential battle is with the Palestinians

22 Sep 2024

Israel's campaign against Hizbollah escalated a week ago with the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies which killed around 40 people and wounded 3,000 and peaked with Israeli strikes...

Filming reality

19 Sep 2024

A documentary film, “The Bibi Files,” was previewed at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival to lend urgency to popular Israeli demands for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu to...

The West cannot fathom what Ukraine means to Russia

15 Sep 2024

US President Joe Biden is under pressure from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to agree on Ukraine’s use of long-range Anglo-European Storm Shadow missiles on military targets deep inside Russia....

Deadly risks

12 Sep 2024

Human rights activist Aysenur Eygi was the 18th person to be killed by Israeli troops since 2020 during a Palestinian protest against Israeli settlements in the occupied northern West Bank...

Lebanese banker Salameh to face criminal charges

08 Sep 2024

Lebanon’s former Central Bank governor Riad Salameh has been arrested, imprisoned, and is due to l appear in court today to contest a charge of embezzling $40 million from the...

Inevitable protests

05 Sep 2024

US universities and colleges, students, police and law enforcement are bracing for the resumption of anti-Gaza war protests as the academic year begins. Protests are inevitable in the run-up to...

Jenin, a turbulent history and a violent present

01 Sep 2024

"Jenin," the name of the northern West Bank city has a lovely ring like a bell. Jenin is an ancient city with a turbulent history dating to the 14th century...

Surprising twist

29 Aug 2024

By adding his influential name to the Trump presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) has expanded the crackpot dimension of the race for the White House. As popular...

Michael Jansen

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