Obama aide wants talks with terrorists Foreign adviser’s ‘anti-Israel policies,’ sympathy for Hamas, raise concerns
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While officials here largely maintain a policy against interfering in U.S. election politics, some Israeli security officials quietly expressed “concern” about an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
The officials noted Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.
Malley’s contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat’s refusal to make peace for the talks’ failure.
“We are noting with concern some of Obama’s picks as advisers, particularly Robert Malley who has expressed sympathy to Hamas and Hezbollah and offered accounts of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that don’t jibe with the facts,” said one security official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official stated he was not authorized to talk to the media about U.S. politics, noting Israeli officials are instructed to “stay out” of American political affairs.
In February 2006, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and amid a U.S. and Israeli attempt to isolate the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority, Malley wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun advocating international aid to the terror group’s newly formed government.
“The Islamists (Hamas) ran on a campaign of effective government and promised to improve Palestinians’ lives; they cannot do that if the international community turns its back,” wrote Malley in a piece entitled, “Making the Best of Hamas’ Victory.”
Ed Lasky, a contributor to the American Thinker blog, calls Malley a “[Palestinian] propagandist” who, he charged, bends “the truth to serve an agenda that is marked by anti-Israel bias. … Malley’s writings strike me as being akin to propaganda.”
Lasky points out Malley’s father, Simon Malley, was a personal friend of Arafat and wrote in support of numerous struggles against Western countries. Simon Malley founded Afrique Asie, a French magazine that was known for its advocacy for “liberation” struggles throughout the world, including the Palestinian cause.
“Robert Malley has seemingly followed in his father’s footsteps: He represents the next generation of anti-Israel activism,” wrote Lasky.
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick noted in a column last week, “Obama has taken no steps to moderate his church’s anti-Israel invective. Obama’s affiliation with Wright aligns with his choice of financial backers and foreign policy advisers. To varying degrees, all of them exhibit hostility towards Israel and support for appeasing jihadists.”
Wild Thing’s comment……..
And here is more on Malley, and Soros, here Barack Obama’s Middle East Expert.
Obama’s choice of company explains his hiring of Malley who, revealed in this article, is an apparent Jew hater and terrorist sympathizer and boldly so.
Obama should have his feet held to the fire on these issues! And why isn’t he, he shouldn’t be allowed to hold office or run for President. Everyone that he has for advice hates Jews and Israel.
Damn!
….Mark, thank you so much for this article. I hope a lot of people read it and keep learning how dangerous Obama is and his empty suit is not so empty but filled with danger for America and Israel.
Barack Q-Tips Obama loves to pet rabbid dogs and pet rattlesnakes too!
Somthing has got to change this is just nutz. Bush is over in the middleeast trying to get Israel to give away half of its already little country to the Palistinians, and from the other side, the Left, they want to pay the Palestinians to take the land.
I don’t see a bright future for the United States.
Methinks obama’s advisor needs an attitude adjustment. Do I hear calls for a Blanket Party?
Houston, we have a problem.
There is no talking with these lunatic nut jobs who’s own holy book tells them to kill all infidels in order to get to Heaven, so why does Obama’s aide want to talk to them?
You can’t reason with them, you can’t please them.
Does he really think they’ll kill us last?
One wrong move here, America, and we’ll get attacked again and again. And they’re just sitting back laughing at us, just waiting for it to happen.
We already pushed out the ones who would make a stand and Osama is soooo happy in his cave in Pakistan. He’s jumping for joy!
We have to be so very careful here, but we’ve already blown it. Someone is going to get bombed out of existence.
Hey,
I try to read the blog daily, I also clip the stories and post them in our local liberal papers blog. Now I have been marked as a bigot, racist and a hater… they deny all with their heads in the sand…until the jihadists chop it off
Obama has that moslem blood in him. The MSM never mentions it. If he was part Jewish and had an advisor advocating support for Israel, the MSM would be all over him with sensationalistic editorials.
HEY dzsurplusgunz – are you an Airborne dude?
Darth now that is scary. Yikes
Mark, yes it is sending messages they are not even bad guys to the terrorists over there. I wish they had someone like Dan Gellermen (spelling) their rep for the UN,to say no way instead of Olmert that gives in so much too. Dan Gellermen is awesome, he is a lot like John Bolton.
GMCAMH1USNRET, your idea would get a yes vote from me.
Lynn, I have a sick feeling they really believe it. Sit down and yak with a terrorist. Good grief.
dropzonesurplusngunz, thank you. Well just tell them that what you are posting is all true and be sure to use the link I provide as backup. Credibilty is very important. I alwasy put a link with everything I post here so if anyone argues about it we all have proof that it is really what happened or what was said.
Again I really thank you. It is so important to get the word out on a lot of this.
Tom that is a great way to put it, because that isi excactly how it would be too if it was the other way around.
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all their Democrat cohorts brag about their intent to improve the Arab and Islamic world’s view of the United States. What better way than to sell out Israel? Jeremiah Wright must be proud of his loyal parishioner, friend, and politician in high places.
Les, I agree, that absolutely has to be in their plans.