AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

CNN founder Ted Turner revolutionised TV journalism

10 May 2026

When the US attacked Iraq early in the morning on January 17th, 1991, The Irish Times night editor woke me up and demanded an analytical article. My husband Godfrey,...

Power and principle

07 May 2026

George and Amal Clooney are far more than just a handsome couple gracing the global scene. Film actor, producer, and director George Clooney and international lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney...

Denying Gazans a window on the world

03 May 2026

To maintain its tight blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israel's navy last week illegally intercepted 22 ships from the latest flotilla and arrested 175 crew and passengers from dozens...

Crisis presidency

30 Apr 2026

Last Saturday evening security agents seized an armed man outside the hotel ballroom where President Donald Trump was attending the annual dinner of the White House press corps. Although...

Hormuz, a strategic waterway key to talks

26 Apr 2026

Hopes faded of ending the US-Israel war with Iran as talks in Islamabad were cancelled, leaving the region and the world in limbo and oil and gas traffic halted...

Detained lives

23 Apr 2026

Global media has picked up reports that Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti has suffered three recent beatings by Israeli prison guards during the last month. Although such reports are...

Donald Trump knows nothing about war

19 Apr 2026

Since he failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a peacemaker, Donald Trump became a war president by joining Israel in its 12-day June campaign against Iran. Then...

Unsteady peace

16 Apr 2026

The failure of the weekend’s US-Iran talks to end the six-week war has left the ceasefire in limbo and exposed war-ravaged Lebanon to Israeli attacks. Israel’s arrogant assertiveness knows...

Both US and Iran claim winning Iran war

12 Apr 2026

The war launched on Iran on Feb.28 by the US and Israel has no victor, no vanquished. And, no end. Ceasefire talks held on Saturday in Islamabad marked a...

Holy lockout

09 Apr 2026

The thrice holy season has been disrupted by unholy rows as Israel has denied Muslims and Christians access to their holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem and Hebron. At...

Michael Jansen

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