AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Lifting Syria sanctions a complex, time-taking task

19 May 2025

On the regional political front, Donald Trump's Gulf tour yielded positive results for Syrians and negative consequences for Palestinians. Following a meeting with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Trump...

Making history

15 May 2025

Poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha has many firsts in his short life. He is the first Arab and first Palestinian to win one of the prestigious 23 Pulitzer...

VE Day, Trump distances US from Europe alliance

12 May 2025

The 8th anniversary last Thursday of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany (VE Day) was celebrated royally in Britain with marching bands and colour-coded regiments, a service in Westminster...

Stopped by sea

08 May 2025

As the International Court of Justice wound up hearings on Israel’s two-month blockade of Gaza, a small ship carrying aid for the strip was struck and disabled by two...

Making food a political issue throttles Gaza lives

04 May 2025

In a world where 757 million people face chronic hunger, and 45 million children suffer from wasting due to acute malnutrition, Gaza stands out as unique. War, drought, earthquakes,...

Running on empty

01 May 2025

A week ago, Donald Trump said he had pressed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to let food and medicine into Gaza. He told the press in his plane as...

Even the day before death Pope urged end to Gaza war

28 Apr 2025

Western secular leaders and religious patriarchs and prelates attended Pope Francis’ globally televised Vatican state funeral in Rome on Saturday. He would have preferred a quiet blessing as he...

Speech under siege

24 Apr 2025

Last week articles appeared in The Washington Post and The Guardian by Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate arrested without producing a warrant by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Trust in America virtually zero over Iran nuclear deal talks

20 Apr 2025

The situation in this region might have been very different if during his first term in office Donald Trump had not withdrawn the US from the 2015 six-party deal...

No in-between

17 Apr 2025

Celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani is currently focusing on the prosecution of British citizens who have been accused of war crimes while fighting in the Israeli army...

Michael Jansen

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