AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

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...

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...

Gaza, peace talks have been repeatedly sabotaged

25 Aug 2024

The outcome of yesterday’s escalation between Hizbollah and Israel has, as usual, been obscured by the fog of war. Israeli claims to have struck 100 Hizbollah rocket launchers ahead...

High stakes campaign

22 Aug 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris should limit appearances alongside unpopular incumbent Joe Biden during her jolly, high stakes campaign to succeed him. Last Wednesday, he hovered beside her on the...

Gaza: Words are fine, but deeds decide peace

18 Aug 2024

Israel's war on Gaza and constant attacks in this region loom large on the agenda of the Democratic National Convention convening today in Chicago to confirm Kamala Harris and...

Maintaining momentum

15 Aug 2024

US President Joe Biden did a huge favour to his successor as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and their party when he clung to the nomination until July 21st. Between...

Nearly 2 million Palestinians face death daily

11 Aug 2024

The threat of an Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen could recede if serious movement towards a Gaza ceasefire is achieved this week when Israeli and Hamas...

Verbal pyrotechnics

08 Aug 2024

Donald Trump has been confused, confounded and consternated since Vice President Kamala Harris succeeded fumbling, bumbling Joe Biden as the Democrat party’s candidate in the November election. Trump had designed...

Region suffers from a massive imbalance of power

04 Aug 2024

During the First Intifada, occupied East Jerusalem’s leader Faisal Husseini told me Palestinians could not follow the example of India’s Mahatma Gandhi by adopting peaceful means for resisting Israel’s...

Michael Jansen

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