OBAMA’S PRO-TERROR ISIS CZAR DOESN’T BELIEVE TERRORISTS CAN BE DEFEATED
How can this plan possibly go wrong?
December 2, 2015 Daniel Greenfield
During the Ebola crisis, there were complaints that Obama’s Ebola czar was completely unqualified for the job. That was true. But at least he didn’t have Ebola.
The same can’t be said for Obama’s ISIS Czar who was originally fired for his backdoor contacts with Hamas. And then got taken back on and basically put in charge of a big chunk of regional policy. So now there’s a terrorist sympathizer heading up the effort to fight ISIS.
While President Obama was in Paris for the past few days cavorting with other world leaders on the dire global threat of climate change… his spokesperson made the announcement that Obama’s new ISIS czar will be none other than Robert Malley.
In 2008, Malley was booted from the Obama election committee when it was discovered that he had met with Hamas members. Although removed from the public stage, Malley was still one of Obama’s most trusted advisers on Middle East issues.
Robert Malley doesn’t believe that you can militarily defeat terrorists.
Interviewed as part of a pro-Palestinian filmmaker’s 2010 documentary, Cultures of Resistance, Malley said it was a mistake to think of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah only “in terms of their terrorist violence dimension.”
Hamas, he said, “has deep loyalty, it has a charity organization, a social branch – it’s not something you could defeat militarily either.”
“There’s so much misinformation about them,” Malley continued. “I speak to them, my colleagues speak to them. Now we may disagree with them, but they have their own rationale.”
Sure, why not put a guy who doesn’t believe terrorists can be beaten in charge of beating terrorists. We just need to stop thinking of them as terrorists.
Definitely the man you want heading up an effort to beat ISIS. Also he’s pro-Assad.
When then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited Syria in April 2007 the Bush administration and others criticized her for doing so.
But Malley called the criticism “absurd,” and suggesting that Assad could change his policies on collaborating with Iran and terrorist groups if the Bush administration ended its “hostile policy.”
Back when Obama fired him, when he was still pretending to be pro-Israel, the campaign disavowed Malley.
The Times of London reports that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has fired one of his foreign policy advisers — Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group — for meeting with the Palestinian group Hamas, which the U.S. State Department classifies as a terrorist organization.
“He was one of literally hundreds of informal, outside advisors,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton told ABC News, confirming the Times account.
The International Crisis Group is properly abbreviated SOROS so it should come as no surprise that Malley didn’t stay gone despite his affinity for Hamas.
Today, National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice announced that Philip Gordon, Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region will be stepping down, and will be succeeded by Robert Malley, currently NSC Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States.
“There could be no better successor to Phil than Rob Malley, who is already one of my most trusted advisers and ideally placed to provide a seamless transition. One of our country’s most respected experts on the Middle East, since February 2014 Rob has played a critical role in forming our policy on Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf. I look forward to working with him in his new role.”
How bad are Malley’s views?
“Making the Best of Hamas’s Victory”: In this March 2006 piece, Malley recommends that nations worldwide should establish relationships with, and send financial aid to, the Palestinians’ newly elected, Hamas-led government.
Writes Malley: “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.”
“Avoiding Failure with Hamas”: This April 2006 article not only advocates international aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, but also suggests that a failure to extend such aid could trigger an environmental or public health crisis for Palestinians.
“Forget Pelosi: What About Syria?”: In this April 2007 piece, Malley advocates U.S. and Israeli outreach to Syria
“Containing a Shiite Symbol of Hope”: This October 2006 article advocates U.S. engagement with the fiercely anti-American Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite leader of the Mahdi Army in Iraq.
So as a bonus, Obama’s new ISIS czar also has an affinity for Shiite terrorists and Iran. Not to mention Assad.
Syria’s official media was keen to deliver special coverage of President Bashar Al-Assad’s Oct. 16 meeting with Robert Malley, head of the Middle East program at the International Crisis Group and erstwhile informal adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The lead story the next day in government newspapers reported that Al-Assad and Malley discussed Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and prospects for peace in the Middle East, and that Malley explained the role the ICG would have in briefing the new U.S. administration about Syria’s important role in the region.
What really attracted attention, though, was that on the same day a Web site closely associated with the government published a translation of a lecture Malley had delivered at Yale, offering effusive praise for it.
The site referred to Malley as a senior adviser to Barack Obama on the Middle East, even though the Obama campaign says Malley’s role was never official. In any case, the campaign dropped him as too controversial after it was reported that he had met with Hamas officials. The Web site further stated that Malley’s opinions would shape the next U.S. president’s ideas about the Middle East…
And so he did.
