Obama’s
New ISIS Czar a Terrorist Sympathizer, Once Fired by Obama for Hamas Ties,
12/3/15
(Judicial Watch) – A radical foreign
policy adviser fired by President Obama years ago for meeting with the
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is back as the administration’s new czar in
charge of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
The White House downplayed the new
appointment by burying it deep in a press briefing delivered at a
Paris hotel during the recent climate summit. “The President recently elevated
Rob Malley, the NSC [National Security Council] Coordinator for the Middle East
and North Africa, to serve now as the Senior Advisor to the President for the
Counter-ISIL Campaign in Iraq and Syria,” White House Press Secretary Josh
Earnest said during the briefing at the Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel and
Conference Center. Before moving onto the next topic Earnest said the president
has directed Malley to “support our reinvigorated diplomatic track toward a
political transition in Syria…”
Malley has a well-documented history
of sympathizing with extremists, which makes this appointment rather
outrageous. Judicial Watch wrote about Malley last year when Obama
made him the senior director at the NSC even though the president had dumped
him as a foreign policy adviser for meeting with and having regular contact
with Hamas, long classified a terrorist organization by the U.S. State
Department. Malley’s family had close ties to Yasser Arafat, founder of the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah movement, and Malley was
an adviser in Bill Clinton’s White House. He consistently exonerates
Palestinians and condemns Israel.
Over the years he has published a
number of newspaper opinion pieces urging the United States to reach out and
negotiate with terrorist enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah and Muqtada al-Sadr.
A website that documents the networks and agendas of the political
left offers details about Malley’s scary past and provides links to the
egregious articles he’s published, including several co-written with Hussein
Agha, a former adviser to Arafat. In 2007 Malley published an op-ed
piece in a mainstream newspaper expressing strong support for Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, a murderous tyrant who has been credited with
helping ISIS rise.
Malley grew up in France and his
Egyptian-born father was a key figure in Egypt’s communist party and a close
friend of Arafat’s. His parents were fervently anti-Israel and huge supporters
of several leftist revolutionary liberation movements, especially the
Palestinian cause. Malley published a piece in a mainstream newspaper
declaring that Israel was responsible for the failure of Bill Clinton’s peace
talks with the Palestinians. Malley attended the 2000 event, which was held at
Camp David because it was the site of the landmark 1978 Israeli-Egyptian peace
accords.
Shortly after Obama got elected
president Israel’s largest news site revealed that the Arabic-language
newspaper Al-Hayat reported that Hamas engaged in talks with
Obama for months through his “fired” adviser. The article quotes Ahmad
Yousuf, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s political advisor, saying this: “We were
in contact with a number of Obama’s aides through the Internet, and later met
with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to come out with any
statements, as they may have a negative effect on his election campaign and be
used by Republican candidate John McCain (to attack Obama).”
How can Americans possibly confide
in Malley to help dismantle what is arguably the world’s deadliest and most
brazen terrorist group? A Florida-based Jewish weekly
helps answer this, albeit with another question: “With a history of
dissing Israel, snuggling up to Hamas, shielding Assad, and promoting the
containment of a nuclear-armed Iran, is it any surprise that Malley is Obama’s
choice to spearhead the U.S. response to ISIS?”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/isis-czar-a-terrorist-sympathizer-once-fired-by-obama-for-hamas-ties/
http://www.teaparty.org/obamas-new-isis-czar-terrorist-sympathizer-fired-obama-hamas-ties-132763/
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