We tried to tell you. From The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America, by Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer:
- Early on in his campaign, Obama named Robert Malley one of his primary foreign policy advisers – to the immediate consternation of Israeli officials. One Israeli security official noted in February 2008: “We are noting with concern some of Obama’s picks as advisers, particularly Robert Malley, who has expressed sympathy to Hamas and Hizbullah and offered accounts of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that don’t jibe with the facts.”
- Malley’s sympathy was too much for the dancing Obama of the presidential campaign: he dropped Malley in May 2008 after it came to light that he had met with representatives of the jihad terror group Hamas.
However, this turned out to be only a trial separation, not a divorce. Meeting with an Islamic terrorist group was not a disqualifying resume item for Barack Hussein Obama. Only six months after Obama had dismissed him, the now-President Obama sent Malley to Egypt and Syria. “The tenor of the messages,” explained an aide to Malley, “was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests.”
Malley was a good choice to convey such a message. He has coauthored opinion pieces with a former adviser to Yasir Arafat and has repeatedly called upon the U.S. to hold talks with Hamas. His anti-Israel record was perfect; he even blamed Israel for the failure of the Camp David talks of 2000, when Arafat shocked the world by rejecting an offer to establish a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and beginning another bloody intifada instead. When Hamas won the Palestinian elections in the winter of 2006, Malley explained the result as stemming from “anger at years of humiliation and loss of self-respect because of Israeli settlement expansion, Arafat’s imprisonment, Israel’s incursions, Western lecturing and, most recently and tellingly, the threat of an aid cut off in the event of an Islamist success.”
Jihadist intransigence and Islamic anti-Semitism? Malley had nothing to say about either.
Malley has continued to defend Hamas and call for its acceptance by the U.S., saying that “a renewed national compact and the return of Hamas to the political fold would upset Israel’s strategy of perpetuating Palestinian geographic and political division.”
“Ex-Clinton aide returns to White House with Persian Gulf brief,” from Haaretz, February 19 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
- Robert Malley, the White House aide who advised President Bill Clinton during his futile effort to broker an agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians at Camp David in 2000, is rejoining the White House, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The paper quoted administration officials as saying that Malley will manage the fraying ties between the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf. As a senior director at the National Security Council, he will help devise American policy from Saudi Arabia to Iran.
Malley, who has been program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, has been something of a lightning rod in a field that can be culturally and ideologically treacherous. In 2008, he was forced to sever his ties as an informal adviser to the Obama presidential campaign when it was reported that he had met with members of Hamas, which the State Department classifies as a terrorist organization.
Malley also came under fire for an article, co-written with Hussein Agha, that argued that some of the blame for the failure of the Camp David talks lay with the Israeli leader at the time, Ehud Barak, and not just with the uncompromising position of the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, which was the conventional wisdom then.
Some right-wing critics accused Malley of showing a persistent anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian bias in his writings. A few even cited his father, the prominent Egyptian-born Jewish journalist, Simon Malley, who had close ties to the Egyptian government.
But Malley was stoutly defended by five former colleagues from the Clinton administration — Sandy Berger, Dennis B. Ross, Martin S. Indyk, Daniel C. Kurtzer and Aaron David Miller — who wrote a letter condemning what they said were “vicious, personal attacks” that were “unfair, inappropriate and wrong.”…
Sandy Berger! A man honest as the day is long!
@ Yidvocate:
Impeachment takes a judicial FORM — it’s a ‘trial,’ of sorts.
But while it takes a judicial form, it’s NOT actually a judicial proceeding.
— It’s a political proceeding.
What this means is that as long as the Senate (which constitutes the ‘Jury’) is dominated by DEMO’s — with a Demo Majority Leader — there won’t be a conviction.
Demo’s never have the class to cross their own man
— no matter how bad he is.
And he knows it.
@ yamit82:”The X factor can be what are unforeseen consequences of his policies any of them can be game changers for good and worse. The Black swans; the unknown unknowns; the unforeseen game changers: the quicksands of entering an engagement without multiple exit strategies ( Viet Nam, Iraq) have been thrust of my professional assignments. 6 months is a long time when a fire is raging. 6 months is a very short time when we try to get something good, no matter how minor, accomplished.
Hamas-loving Malley to join National Security Council
Robert Malley, who was forced to resign from the Obama campaign after it came to light that he was negotiating with Hamas, has been named to the National Security Council. Fortunately, it sounds like he will have very little to do with Israel, at least for now.
In order for Obama to succeed, his policies must have long term if not some permanence. Fortunately The American system allows for administrative change every 4 and 8 years. Today Obama is into his 6th year & there are two more election cycles to get through both effecting his effectiveness to implement any policy especially those that are inimical to American interests.
We know no matter the results of the mid term that right after the midterm elections the presidential election campaigns will begin making Obama a Lame duck and even more so if he loses support of both houses. The way I see it he has about 6 months to do and accomplish whatever he intends both domestically and foreign. Theoretically most of the damage he has or will inflict can be reversed. Throwing the Arabs like the Saudis,Gulf states and Jordan are not necessarily bad things.
The X factor can be what are unforeseen consequences of his policies any of them can be game changers for good and worse. Betting on Iran over the Saudis and the Arabs is not necessarily from an American POV not a bad idea. At least Iran is a real country and they are open to regime change as I believe a majority of Iranians would support such a change. At this point I don’t think the Iranians can be denied their quest for Nukes and regional hegemony. The danger of Iranian Nukes are not in and of the Nukes but of the regime.
Western oil interests want in on Iranian energy and want to deny them to the Chinese. Western commercial businesses want the business. Iran offers more favorable terms to Western companies than do the Saudis through ARAMCO! In the end I still believe it’s all about oil.
I don’t at this point see how Obama’s end game can come to any fruition within the time period of his final term in office.
@ Ted Belman:
Slightly off topic, but I have finally received my honeybee – english dictionary…. And now I cannot put it to use…. 🙁
Any news?
@ Yidvocate:
On another thread, both mr ros and i commented that there are NO DIFFERENCES between the so called republicans and the dhimmi rats .
They belong to the very same team of “what’s in it for ME, above all, and to hell with the rest of the country”
This pathetic spectacle will go to unbelievable lengths.
The only thing that MIGHT stop this is the proverbial ‘citizenry armed with pitchforks and torches taking to the streets’.
When more and more people are made dependent on this gigantic monster called ‘government’… It would be very hard to find those actually willing to stand for what is right knowing full well the consequences to them and their families.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/why_did_barack_obama_let_terry_lakin_go_to_jail.html
Doctor Larkin, is unfortunately a rare specimen. And THAT is how this Black Plague sob, usurper lier. is still stinking the Oval Office with his presence…. 🙁
In case there was any doubt left, Obama can now be clearly seen as the enemy of the USA, the west in general and all things America and western civilization stand for. What I can’t understand is how the congress and the senate continue to stand with this Islamofascist enabler. Aaron Klein has recently written a book, Impeachable Offences which lists several items, any one of which would be solid grounds for Articles of Impeachment and collectively make impeachment of this traitorous president a foregone conclusion. How does he remain in office?
Kapos, each and every one.
And Berger was the man who stuffed documents down his pants to protect the Clintons.
Jonathan Tobin wrote about Robert Malley and the Shift to Appeasement and ended with:
APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT MALLEY TO SENIOR POSITION AT NSC FULFILLS PRES. OBAMA’S PRE-ELECTION CHICAGO PLEDGES TO RASHID KHALIDI AND ALI ABUNIMAH
2-19-14
At a time when Saudi Arabia and other US allies in the region should be worried that the U.S. has turned its back on them as part of President Obama’s misguided pursuit of détente with Iran, the president has called back to service Robert Malley, one of the foremost enemies of Saudi Arabia, the current regime in Egypt, the current regime in Jordan, and Israel.
Malley’s joining the NSC removes any remaining doubt about where Obama’s foreign policy is heading.
His prior actions, giving an explicit back-channel green light to terrorists should have been enough to keep him out of any administration , But,by putting him in charge of relations with the Gulf states, President Obama is also demonstrating that he is determined to continue a policy of downgrading relations with traditional allies in favor of better relations with Iran and other radicals.
The Saudis have many reason to worry. including the administration’s failure to act in Syria, where Iran’s ally Bashar Assad appears to be winning his war to hold on to power. The Saudis are right to dismiss the president’s attempts to reassure them on Iran.
Israel has cause for concern about the US’s headlong rush to embrace Iran.
The appointment of Robert Malley is a clear sign sign of just how far President Obama has strayed from his campaign pledges on the Middle East. The U.S. thrust toward appeasement of radical Islamists is no longer a matter of speculation but a fact. Any constraints on administration policies based on concern about alienating America’s allies are now a thing of the past.
Now that he has appointed a longtime advocate of embracing America’s foes, it’s not likely that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and many other US allies in the middle East will feel any better about U.S. policy.