AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Echoes of power

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...

Illusions collapse

23 Oct 2025

US-Israeli flights of fancy for ruling Gaza have one-by-one flown away and compelled the Trump administration to revert to reality. The first to go is the US-Israel sponsored Gaza...

Many Gazans being denied food, medicines despite accord

19 Oct 2025

World Food Day was celebrated last Thursday while 733 million people go hungry every day, 2.33 billion people face moderate to severe food insecurity, and 3.1 billion people cannot...

Freedom denied

16 Oct 2025

Fatah’s Marwan Barghouti is the most high-profile of the Palestinian prisoners Israel flatly refused to release in exchange for 48 captive Israelis held by Hamas. He led street protests...

Trump’s claims for ending some wars ring hollow

12 Oct 2025

The award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela's chief opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has added insult to injury as far as US President Donald Trump is...

Michael Jansen

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