Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Obama Hires Mideast Advisor Who Quit '08 Campaign over Hamas Meetings



Obama Hires Mideast Advisor Who Quit '08 Campaign over Hamas Meetings

by Joel B. Pollak 19 Feb 2014, 5:37 AM PDT
Robert Malley, a Middle East scholar who resigned from his advisory role in Barack Obama's 2008 campaign when it was revealed he had met with the Palestinian terror group Hamas, has been appointed by the president to be a senior director at the White House's National Security Council, overseeing the administration's Middle East policy. The appointment does not require former Senate confirmation.

The left-wing Israeli daily Ha'aretz reports that Malley, who also worked in the Clinton White House, was controversial because of "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."

However, that is not the reason Malley's work with the Obama campaign became a topic of scrutiny in 2008. As NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported in May 2008, Malley decided to disassociate himself from the campaign after his meetings with Hamas, in his work for the International Crisis Group think tank, came to light. Later, Hamas claimed to have met secretly with senior advisers to the Obama campaign during the campaign itself.

Moreover, in a lecture in 2007 at Harvard University, Malley criticized the Bush administration for discouraging Israel from talking with Syria's Bashar al-Assad, describing Assad as genuinely interested in peace. Malley also attacked the "Israel lobby," and argued that Hamas had become more moderate since taking power in Palestinian elections, and that the U.S. should follow Europe's lead and engage with Hamas leaders.

Robert Malley
Robert Malley was a special assistant to the president for the William J. Clinton administration, a director for democracy, human rights & humanitarian affairs for the National Security Council, Samuel R. Berger’s executive assistant, and the Middle East & North Africa program director for the International Crisis Group (think tank).

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Nancy E. Soderberg was a staff director for the National Security Council, and a VP for the International Crisis Group (think tank).
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Jessica Tuchman Mathews was a director of the Office of Global Issues for the National Security Council, is a board member for the International Crisis Group (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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Kofi A. Annan is a director at the United Nations Foundation, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group (think tank), was the United Nations secretary general, and his lawyer was Gregory B. Craig.
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