Perfidy in Vienna?

The tweet thread is long, 40 messages. One never knows what is trustworthy, but what is recounted here would fit with the Obama/Biden regime's history, including paying $7 billion to ransom four hostages.

Perfect time when the State-Sponsored Media is seemingly covering nothing but Ukraine. Biden Junta will try to sneak a bunch of things under the radar.

As I have posted before, Robert Malley is the son of Simon Malley, a founder of one of the three competing Communist Party of Egypt in 1948 period. There reportedly is a book or report on this but I haven’t found it yet.

Very little on the internet about Comrade Simon though he and his whole family were thrown out of France as security risks in the mid-1970’s because of the pro Soviet communist propaganda he published in “L’Afrique, Asia” publication or similarly named newspaper.

Robert Malley has been an Obama/Hillary Clinton top foreign affairs advisor/office re the Middle-East- Iran arena and he’s definitely not on our side.

I do know that he has been a key player in the leftist International Crisis Group. You should be able to find this at WWW.DiscoverTheNetworks.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Malley

Simon Malley

Simon Malley (May 25, 1923 – September 7, 2006), was a prominent francophone journalist and a strong supporter of Third World independence movements.

Malley was “one of the best known francophone journalists of his generation” and a “partisan, fearless and controversial” writer who spoke and wrote easily in both French and English as well as his native Arabic, according to his obituary in The Guardian of London.[1]

Life and career
Simon Malley was born in Cairo to a Jewish family of modest circumstances. After graduating from high school, he became a journalist and was sent by an Egyptian newspaper to cover the United Nations. In New York City, he met his wife, Barbara, an American, when she worked for the United Nations delegation of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the Algerian independence group. Malley took up the cause of the FLN and was important in publicizing its cause.[1]

Malley supported Gamal Abdul Nasser’s revolution in Egypt in 1952, and Nasser made him the representative of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Gomhuria in New York City.[1]

He moved to France in 1969, where he founded the journal “Africasia” (its name was changed to “Afrique Asie” later on; he also began a second magazine called L’Economiste du Tiers Monde and also then edited an English version which was called Africasia) and was led by his wife, Barbara Malley . The journal published reports from Third World areas which received relatively little coverage elsewhere. Its contributors included Third World economists and academics.[1]

Malley became the “best known voice” of Third World anti-colonialist movements. He conducted a 20-hour interview with Fidel Castro, and long interviews with Yasser Arafat and Oliver Tambo. “At Non-Aligned Movement meetings other journalists had press passes; he had a delegate’s pass”, according to his obituary in The Guardian.[1] One of the Third World movements that the magazine was friendly toward was the Palestine Liberation Organization.[2]

Afrique Asie became a longtime critic of the regimes of King Hassan II of Morocco and Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire, among others. Malley was a strong critic of French foreign policy and alleged intelligence activities in Africa. In October 1980, at the end of the administration of French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, French special services police pulled Malley from a taxi and put him on a plane to New York City without his passport. In the airport at New York, an airline employee helped him avoid customs in order to take another flight, and he spent eight months in Geneva, Switzerland editing his journal until the election of President François Mitterrand, then returned to France with the assent of the new administration.[1]

Family
Simon and Barbara Malley’s son, Robert Malley, was a national security advisor in the Clinton administration and foreign policy advisor in the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Robert Malley wrote about Third Worldism and its decline in his book, The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam, described in a Times Literary Supplement review as “a personal perspective on the movement in which his father played a notable part, and an epitaph of sorts.”[3] Their other son, Richard, is a prominent pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston where he develops affordable vaccines for use in the developing world. Simon and Barbara Malley also have a daughter, Nadia, who works in a travel clinic and is active in various political and social issues. Simon and Barbara have six grandchildren: Christopher, Miles, Blaise, Robert (Bobby), Sasha, and Frances.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Malley

Robert Malley (born 1963) is an American lawyer, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution, who was the lead negotiator on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).[1] He is currently the U.S. Special Representative to Iran, tasked with bringing the United States and Iran into compliance with the Iran nuclear deal abandoned by President Donald Trump.[2]

Malley was Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council from 1994 to 1996[3] and Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group and Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger from 1996 to 1998. He served in the National Security Council under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. In 2015, the Obama administration appointed Malley as its “point man” on the Middle East, leading the Middle East desk of the National Security Council.[4] In November 2015, Malley was named as President Obama’s new special ISIS advisor.[5] After leaving the Obama administration, Malley was President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels[6] non-profit committed to preventing wars.[7]

Malley is considered, by some, to be an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this subject advocating rapprochement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.[3] As Special Assistant to President Clinton, he was a member of the U.S. peace team and helped organize the 2000 Camp David Summit.[8]

In January 2021, President Joe Biden named Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran.[9]

Early life
Malley was born in 1963 to Barbara (née Silverstein) Malley, a New Yorker who worked for the United Nations delegation of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), and her husband, Simon Malley (1923–2006), an Egyptian-born Jewish journalist who grew up in Egypt and worked as a foreign correspondent for Al Gomhuria. The elder Malley spent time in New York, writing about international affairs, particularly about nationalist, anti-imperial movements in Africa, and made a key contribution by putting the FLN on the world map.[10]

In 1969, the elder Malley moved his family—including son Robert—to France, where he founded the leftist magazine Africasia (later known as Afrique Asia). Robert attended École Jeannine Manuel, a prestigious bilingual school in Paris, and graduated in the same class (1980) as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.[11]

The Malleys remained in France until 1980, when then French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing briefly expelled Simon Malley from the country to New York, due to his hostility towards Western colonialism and Israel.[10]

Malley attended Yale University, and was a 1984 Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil. in political philosophy. There he wrote his doctoral thesis about Third-worldism and its decline. Malley continued writing about foreign policy, including extended commentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School, where he met his future wife, Caroline Brown.[12] Another fellow law school student was Barack Obama.[13] In 1991–1992, Malley clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White, while Brown clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. As of 2010, the couple has two sons, Miles and Baby Boy Brown, and one daughter, Frances.[12]

Career
After his Supreme Court clerkship, Malley became a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he published The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam—a book that charts Algeria’s political evolution from the turn of the 20th century to the present, exploring the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the crisis in Algeria. His book received critical acclaim, and Malley was described as “exceptionally well read, creative in seeing connections and influences, and gifted with a graceful, if world-weary writing style.”[14]

Clinton administration
Malley served in the Clinton administration as Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council from 1994–1996. In that post he helped coordinate refugee policy, efforts to promote democracy and human rights abroad and U.S. policy toward Cuba.[12] From 1996–1998 he was Executive Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. In October 1998, Malley was appointed Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs, a post he held until the end of the administration in 2001.[12]

International Crisis Group
After his service with the administration, Malley became Senior Policy Advisor for the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Development in Washington, D.C. He later became Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group in Washington, D.C., directing analysts based in Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Tel Aviv and Baghdad. Malley’s team covers events from Iran to Morocco, with a heavy focus on the Arab–Israeli conflict, the situation in Iraq, and Islamist movements throughout the region. Malley also covers developments in the United States that affect policy toward the Middle East.[3]

Obama campaign and administration
According to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Malley provided informal advice to the campaign in the past without having any formal role in the campaign.[15] On May 9, 2008, the campaign severed ties with Malley when the British Times reported that Malley had been in discussions with the militant Palestinian group Hamas, listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization.[15] In response, Malley told The Times he had been in regular contact with Hamas officials as part of his work with the International Crisis Group. “My job with the International Crisis Group is to meet with all sorts of savory and unsavory people and report on what they say. I’ve never denied whom I meet with; that’s what I do”, Malley told NBC News, adding that he informs the State Department about his meetings beforehand and briefs them afterward.[16]

The New York Times reported on 18 February 2014 that Malley was joining the Obama administration to consult on Persian Gulf policy as senior director of the National Security Council.[17] On 6 March, the National Security Council announced that Malley would be replacing Philip Gordon as the Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region, effective on 6 April 2015.[18]

Lead Iran deal negotiator

Malley and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in June 2015
Malley was the lead U.S. negotiator on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed on July 14, 2015provide URL of signed/dated page, which limited Iran’s nuclear activities and ensured international inspections of its nuclear facilities in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. In describing the negotiating challenges, Malley later wrote in The Atlantic, “The real choice in 2015 was between achieving a deal that constrained the size of Iran’s nuclear program for many years and ensured intrusive inspections forever, or not getting one, meaning no restrictions at all coupled with much less verification.[19]

On November 30, 2015, it was reported that Malley would become the National Security Council’s “ISIS Czar [5]

Return to International Crisis Group
After Obama left office, Malley returned to the International Crisis Group, serving as the new Vice President for Policy. He is currently the President and CEO.[6]

U.S. Special Envoy to Iran
On January 28, 2021, President Biden named Malley U.S. special envoy to Iran, where he will be tasked with trying to ease diplomatic tensions with Iran and rein in its nuclear program by compliance to the original pact.[20][21]

Views
Malley has published several articles on the failed 2000 Camp David Summit in which he participated as a member of the U.S. negotiating team. Malley rejects the mainstream opinion that lays all the blame for the failure of the summit on Arafat and the Palestinian delegation. In his analysis, the main reasons were the tactics of then-Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and the substance of his proposal which made it impossible for Arafat to accept Barak’s offer.[8]

Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is no longer considered the Palestinian people’s sole legitimate representative.[22] He describes the PLO as antiquated, worn out, barely functioning, and, because it does not include the broad Islamist current principally represented by Hamas, of questionable authority. Malley favors negotiating with Hamas at least for the purpose of a ceasefire—citing Hamas officials in Gaza who made clear they were prepared for such an agreement with Israel.[23]

He supports efforts to reach an Israel-Hamas ceasefire which would include an immediate end to Palestinian rocket launches and sniper fire and a freeze on Israeli military attacks on Gaza. Malley’s arguments rest on both humanitarian and practical reasons. Malley points to the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip has not stopped Hamas’s rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns and notes that the siege has caused millions of Gazans to suffer from lack of medicine, fuel, electricity and other essential commodities, so cease-fire would avoid “enormous loss of life, a generation of radicalized and embittered Gazans, and another bankrupt peace process.”[23]

Malley has published many articles in which he calls upon the Israelis (and the international community) to bring Hamas to the negotiating table in order to secure an Israeli–Palestinian ceasefire and insure that any agreement reached with Palestinians will be respected by the Islamist movements in Palestinian society too.

In addition, Malley calls for Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria and other Arab countries to resume negotiations on all tracks based on the Arab Peace Initiative, which promises full Arab recognition and normalization of relations with Israel in the context of a comprehensive peace agreement in exchange for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories to the 1967 borders, the recognition of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and a “just solution” for Palestinian refugees.[22]

“Today, Malley still stands out for his calls to engage in negotiations with Syria and Iran and for finding ‘some kind of accommodation’ with Hamas”, The Jewish Daily Forward reported in February 2008.[13]

Criticism
Malley was criticized after co-authoring an article in the July 8, 2001 edition of The New York Review of Books arguing that the blame for the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit should be divided among all three leaders who were present at the summit, Arafat, Barak, and Bill Clinton, not just Arafat, as was suggested by some mainstream policy analysts.[24] “Later, however, other scholars and former officials voiced similar views to those of Malley”, according to a February 20, 2008 article in The Jewish Daily Forward.[13]

Malley and his views have come under attack from other critics, such as Martin Peretz of the magazine The New Republic, who has opined that Malley is “anti-Israel”, a “rabid hater of Israel. No question about it”, and that several of his articles in the New York Review of Books were “deceitful.”[25] On the conservative webzine The American Thinker, Ed Lasky asserted that Malley “represents the next generation of anti-Israel activism.”[13]

Malley told the Jewish Daily Forward that “it tends to cross the line when it becomes as personal and as un-based in facts as some of these have been.” While he loved and respected his father, he said, their views sometimes differed, and it is “an odd guilt by association” fallacy to criticize him based on his father’s views.[13] Simon Malley was called a sympathizer of the PLO by Daniel Pipes.[26]

In response to what they called “vicious, personal attacks” on Malley, five Jewish, former U.S. government officials—former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Ambassador Martin Indyk, Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer, Ambassador Dennis Ross, and former State Department Senior Advisor Aaron David Miller—published a letter (dated February 12, 2008) in the New York Review of Books defending Malley.[13] They wrote that the attacks on Malley were “unfair, inappropriate, and wrong”, and objected to what they called an attempt “to undermine the credibility of a talented public servant who has worked tirelessly over the years to promote Arab–Israeli peace and US national interests.”[27] This view is also shared by M.J. Rosenberg, a former editor at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a controversial critic of Israeli policies,[28] who condemned the attacks on Malley, writing that Malley is “pro-Israel” and the only reason he is being criticized is because he supports Israeli–Palestinian negotiations.[29]

Published books
The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam, Berkeley: University of California Press (1996), ISBN 978-0-520-20301-3

Robert Malley is a longtime Soros operative.

During the Bill Clinton administration Malley was discovered holding meetings with HAMAS, a designated terrorist group.
As a result he had to resign his post under Clinton.

Now Biden and company has muslim enabler Malley as chief negotiator with Iran.

You know part of that $7 billion and every other transfer to that disgusting regime is providing kickbacks to US diplomats and the Democrat party somehow.

Every one of the US diplomats involved in these “negotiations” need to be brought up on charges of giving material support to terrorism.

Wikipedia is leftwing garbage.

How clueless can you be?

Robert Malley greeis his boss, George Soros, at Soros' International Crisis Group meeting.

Longtime Soros stooge Malley was placed by Soros as head of the ICG.

When Rep. Ro Khanna visited President Jimmy Carter at his home in 2019, seeking the elder statesman’s guidance on a range of issues, Carter gave the young California lawmaker a piece of advice he’s never forgotten: Listen to Rob Malley.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/biden-malley-iran-policy-462953

Obama Quietly Adds Hamas Apologist Robert Malley to ISIS Policy Team

https://www.hudson.org/research/11982-obama-quietly-adds-hamas-apologist-robert-malley-to-isis-policy-team

Given Malley’s track record, his appointment will more likely lead to the further appeasement of Iran.

The policies that Malley has advocated have all been focused on recognizing the legitimacy of Middle East dictators and dictatorial, theocratic regimes.

Malley has been no friend to Israel. In articles primarily appearing in The New York Review of Books, he regularly focused on Israel’s supposed sins and responsibility for lack of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. A profile of him in Discover the Networks has links to his articles, many of which were co-authored with Hussein Agha, a former advisor to Yasser Arafat. Malley’s father was Simon Malley, a leader of Egypt’s Communist Party, a confidant of Yasser Arafat, and a fierce critic of Israel. Clearly, the tree has not fallen very far from its roots.

From 1998 to 2001, Malley was President Clinton’s special assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. In July 2000 he became a member of the U.S. peace team bringing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat together for peace talks which ended in failure. Clinton and Barak blamed Arafat for it. So did U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross, who claimed the talks failed for one reason — Arafat wanted them to fail. Ross did not believe Arafat could end the conflict:

We had one critical clause in the agreement, and that clause was, this is the end of the conflict. Arafat’s whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause … [F]or him to end the conflict is to end himself.
Malley was having none of it. He blamed the failure on Israel; it was Israel, not the PLO, who was the inflexible partner at the Camp David talks.

Summing up her take on Malley’s current appointment, Lori Lowenthal wrote this in The Jewish Express:

Malley is the kind of new-age negotiator who thinks there is no tyrant too awful to shun — unless, of course, you are talking about Israel — and is always eager to play up the “positive” aspects of genocidal terrorist regimes as the justification for allowing them right there in the tent, seated next to you. ... 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?

Malley’s appointment occurs just as a new IAEA report establishes that contrary to its claims, until 2009 Iran had conducted work on developing nuclear arms. This is the first time the agency has made it clear that Iran’s scientific work is linked to nuclear weapons development. It also coincides with the lifting of sanctions on Iran, that are about to be implemented.

Iran has already made threats that it will not comply with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action demands if they do not agree with the IAEA’s conclusions, as Armin Rosen reports in Business Insider. He also notes that, in any case, the agreement is voluntary and non-binding.

Iran may already be cheating on the nuclear deal. The administration has already made it clear that the U.S. does not really care if Iran had previously lied and had been working on nuclear weaponization. Given their past behavior, it is now more than likely that with sanctions lifted, Iran will find ways to move ahead with its nuclear program.

Robert Malley, who now will be advising on Iranian relations with the United States, believes that if Iran develops a nuclear weapon, the U.S. would be able to deal with it as it did with the Soviets — by pursuing a policy of containment. In 2012, writing in Foreign Policy, Malley had criticized Obama in 2012 for being too much of a hawk in not pursuing such a policy.

Malley is the perfect man for the job now that the administration wants Iran-U.S. relations to move ahead despite Iran’s support of terrorism, violation of human rights, and its desire for nuclear weapons capability. He has obviously been promoted by the president because of his advocacy of a “soft” policy towards Iran.

Malley’s appointment as the new “czar” of a strategy to defeat ISIS is a signal of where the Obama administration is headed.

Wikipedia’s bias is irrelevant. It provides a convenient summary of additional details about what Max said in #3 about Simon Malley’s Egyptian Communist Party background, which can easily be followed up and verified from other sources, such as:
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https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/simon-malley

Simon Malley
Overview
Important figure in the Egyptian Communist Party
Political journalist
Founded the bimonthly journal Afrique Asie
Pro-Soviet
Passionately anti-Israel, anti-West
Close friend of Yasser Arafat
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
A key figure in the Egyptian Communist Party, Simon Malley was born on May 25, 1923 to a Syrian family in Cairo. After high school, he became a political journalist and was later dispatched by an Egyptian newspaper to cover the United Nations in New York, where he met his wife, a native New Yorker named Barbara Silverstein. At the time, Miss Silverstein worked for the UN delegation of the National Liberation Front, the leftist, anti-American political party that led the independence movement in Algeria in the 1950s and early ’60s. The first major focus of Mr. Malley’s work in journalism was Algeria’s war for independence (1954-62).

According to American Thinker news editor Ed Lasky, Malley “participated in the wave of anti-imperialist and nationalist ideology that was sweeping the Third World [and] … wrote thousands of words in support of struggle against Western nations.” For example, Malley backed the 1952 revolution of Gamal Abdul Nasser, a pro-Soviet socialist who went on to serve as president of Egypt from 1956-70. Nasser, in turn, appointed Malley to be the New York representative of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Goumhouria.

After immigrating to Paris in 1969, Malley co-founded (with his wife) the bimonthly journal Africasia, which was later renamed Afrique Asie. This publication, whose readership of nearly 120,000 was based mostly in Africa and Latin America, supported various leftist revolutionary “liberation movements”—particularly the Palestinian cause—as well as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. According to an October 4, 1980 New York Times report, Afrique-Asie commonly “criticized moderate African and Middle Eastern leadership and denounced Israel,” a nation which Malley himself detested. An Associated Press report from 1980 stated that the magazine also supported “the Cuban intervention in Angola and Ethiopia, the seizure of American hostages in Iran, the Algerian-backed guerrilla war in southern Morocco, and the Arab opposition to Israel and the [1978] Camp David agreements.” Malley’s personal admiration for hard-line communists was on display, meanwhile, when he conducted a 20-hour interview with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and, on another occasion, a lengthy interview with African National Congress president Oliver Tambo.

By contrast, Malley—whose publishing enterprise was funded by the Soviet Union, Romania, Libya, and Algeria—passionately denounced “western imperialism.”

In 1980 Malley and his family were expelled from France for what French officials described as “political activities which do not correspond with, and even run contrary to, French interests in certain countries.” An October 3, 1980 United Press International report stated: “[French] Interior Minister Christian Bonnet told the Assembly that some articles written by Malley were ‘genuine appeals to murder foreign chiefs of state…’”

Among those who publicly protested the French government’s expulsion order was Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. According to Alex Safian, associate director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, Malley and his wife “were rabidly anti-Israel and counted … Arafat as a personal friend.” “Indeed,” writes Safian, “Arafat was among those ‘leaders’ (for want of a better word) who intervened with the French government to readmit the Malley family to France after they had been expelled for their radical activities.” Adds Ed Lasky of the American Thinker: “Simon Malley loathed Israel and … spent countless hours with Yasser Arafat and became a close friend of Arafat.” According to Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes, Malley was a sympathizer of the PLO during the height of its terrorism activities against the West.

With Francois Mitterrand’s election as French president in 1981, the expulsion order against Malley was lifted and he returned with his family to France. He later resurrected his magazine, under the title Le Nouvel Afrique Asie, in which he published (in December 1989) a long interview with Yasser Arafat. That same edition also featured a copy of Arafat’s personal letter congratulating Malley on being permitted to return to his home.

Simon Malley died on September 7, 2006. His son, Robert Malley, served as President Bill Clinton’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs (1998-2001) and as a foreign-policy advisor to Barack Obama. The younger Malley subsequently became a leading figure (including President & CEO) with the International Crisis Group.

Further Reading: “The Robert Malley-Arafat Connection” (by Alex Safian, CAMERA.org, 2-2-2008); “Barack Obama’s Middle East Expert” (by Ed Lasky, American Thinker, 1-23-2008); “Simon Malley: Journalist with Rare Insight into Africa’s Anti-Colonial Struggles” (The Guardian, 9-26-2006).

Additional Resources
Robert Malley and U.S. Policy on Israel
By Alex Safian
March 11, 2015

The wikipedia article you posted NEVER MENTIONS that Robert Malley was fired from the Clinton administration after it was exposed that he was meeting with terrorist group HAMAS.

Here is the crap from leftwing wikipedia you posted, which REEKS of falseness by omission:

Clinton administration

Malley served in the Clinton administration as Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council from 1994–1996. In that post he helped coordinate refugee policy, efforts to promote democracy and human rights abroad and U.S. policy toward Cuba.[12] From 1996–1998 he was Executive Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. In October 1998, Malley was appointed Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs, a post he held until the end of the administration in 2001.

Actually it was Obama who fired Malley in 2008, which is mentioned on the link in the section titled “Obama campaign and administration”, citing this source:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/barack-obama-sacks-adviser-over-talks-with-hamas-k5q8njmrczj

In any case, Malley’s ties to Hamas are noteworthy, particularly in light of the fact he was assisting Sandy Berger, who along with his own superior Anthony Lake was involved in Clinton’s negotiations with the PLO.

Clinton Hamas ping. On a side note, you might find the item below interesting. I came across the Harry Ellen guy mentioned below (aka Abu Yousef) recently while looking up some connections between OKC and 9/11. (More on him here: “Most of the information from Williams memo was based off of an informant who was closely associated with Williams over the years, Harry Ellen. Ellen, was a long time resident of Tucson, Arizona. A former businessman who converted to Islam, has ‘high credibility’ with the Muslim populace in Arizona because of his work on behalf of the Palestinian cause. He had once even met with Palestinian Liberation Organization leader, Yasser Arafat. By 1994 however, Ellen become an official ‘CI-2’ informant with the Arizona FBI. In 1996 Ellen warns Kenneth Williams about a very mysterious Algerian who was teaching Arab men how to fly small planes.”: https://adamfitzgerald-5924.medium.com/the-brother-shaqil-the-minnesota-terrorism-project-b62ff750ece3)

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https://apnews.com/article/0653e86c5d6796071bdb4bf2b2f3a3bb

AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Late 1990′s
JOHN SOLOMON
October 6, 2003

WASHINGTON (AP) _ While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents.

The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI’s Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press.

Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected terror supporters during the operation as the FBI tried to track the flow of cash through terror organizations, the FBI said in a rare acknowledgment of an undercover sting that never resulted in prosecutions.

``This was done in conjunction with permission from the attorney general for an ongoing operation, and Israeli authorities were aware of it,″ the bureau said.

One of the FBI’s key operatives, who has had a falling out with the bureau, provided an account of the operation at a friend’s closed immigration court proceeding. AP obtained and reviewed the court documents.

Arizona businessman Harry Ellen testified he permitted the FBI to bug his home, car and office, allowed his Muslim foundation’s activities in the Gaza Strip to be monitored by agents, arranged a peace meeting between major Palestinian activists and gained personal access to Yasser Arafat during more than four years of cooperation with the FBI.

Ellen’s FBI handler in the late 1990s was Kenneth Williams, an agent who later became famous for writing a pre-Sept. 11 memo to FBI headquarters warning there were Arab pilots training at U.S. flight schools. The warning went unheeded.

Ellen, a Muslim convert, testified he was taking a trip to the Gaza Strip to bring doctors to the region in summer 1998 when Williams asked him to provide money to a Hamas figure.

Williams wanted ``the transfer of American funds to some of the terrorist groups for violent purposes,″ Ellen testified to the immigration court in a closed June 2001 session.

At the same time, Clinton and his negotiators were trying to reinvigorate stalled Mideast peace talks, an effort that culminated in the Wye Accords in October 1998.

Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said in an interview that the White House wasn’t informed of the FBI activities. ``We were not aware of any such operation,″ Berger said.

Ellen testified the operation ended abruptly in early 1999 when he and Williams had a series of disagreements over the operation, disputes that began when Ellen angered the FBI by having an affair with a Chinese woman suspected of espionage.

FBI officials said they tried to get Ellen to end the relationship and his work was terminated for failing to follow rules.

Melvin McDonald, the former U.S. attorney in Phoenix who has championed Ellen’s cause, said the FBI’s abrupt end to the investigation squandered an important intelligence opportunity.

``Harry had been a tremendous resource to the bureau,″ McDonald said. ``We did not have that many people like him with connections like that to the Middle East.″

Former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini, another Ellen supporter, said Ellen’s work could have greatly assisted the FBI.

``I know some of the wonderful cases and sheer positives the FBI has done. But when it comes to spying and espionage they really screwed up, and I think Harry is one of those cases,″ the former Arizona senator said.

The Justice Department inspector general is investigating some allegations that came to light in Ellen’s case, including that FBI agents in sensitive probes moonlighted at private companies that were using FBI assets or investigative subjects to assist their personal interests.

Ellen, stepson of an Air Force intelligence officer, had worked for U.S. intelligence since the 1970s as an ``asset,″ a private citizen paid to provide information or conduct specific tasks. His work started in Latin America and also involved China and the Middle East.

Ellen, whose step-grandfather was Jewish, converted to Islam in the 1980s and began helping poor Palestinians.

In 1994, he began assisting the FBI Phoenix office, which had become a hotbed of cases involving terrorism and intelligence because of a large, active Muslim population, the proximity to the U.S. southern border and a large concentration of aerospace companies.

Ellen testified that by 1996 his humanitarian work, monitored by the FBI, had won him unprecedented access to Muslim militants from groups fighting for Palestinian independence, including Hamas.

In a rare meeting Ellen organized, he testified, the major groups created an informal alliance to ensure safe passage to any foreigner providing humanitarian assistance. Ellen was named a spokesman and met several times with Arafat.

Ellen also created a foundation named al-Sadaqa to further his work by bringing sewing machines, eyeglasses and other assistance to Palestinians.

Impressed by the extraordinary access, Williams insisted the new foundation be funded in part by the FBI, Ellen testified.

In an interview, he said he agreed to help the FBI ``not as a snitch but as a good American.″

``I agreed to cooperate with the FBI in the facilitation of the peace process that would lead to an independent Palestinian state, stopping the half-century of violent and oppressive occupation,″ Ellen said.

``During that period of time I never did anything nor would I cooperate in any way to harm the Palestinian or Israeli people.″

He testified that Williams provided him between $3,000 and $5,000 in the summer of 1998 and instructed him to give it to a Hamas figure named Ismail Abu Shanab, who was killed earlier this year by Israeli forces in retaliation for a Hamas terrorist strike.

``He (Williams) said they (the dollars) would be for terrorist activities,″ Ellen testified. Abu Shanab distributed the money to Palestinian orphanages and health care facilities, he said.

Ellen testified that Williams told him he hoped the transfer would lead to more money exchanges through terror groups but Ellen refused to earmark money for terrorism. He testified he later learned another FBI operative had offered Hamas and Palestinian figures larger amounts for terrorist attacks.

The court testimony shows Ellen allowed his home, office and car in Arizona to be bugged so the FBI could listen, without a warrant, to visiting Palestinians or Americans if they discussed illegal activity.

The FBI said it commonly uses such recordings. ``Consensual monitoring does not require a warrant. In cases where the FBI conducts consensual monitoring, the one party is aware he is being recorded,″ it said.

One of those to visit Ellen in Arizona was Palestinian Gen. Mahmoud Abu Marzouq, an Arafat ally who oversaw Palestinian civil defense. Marzouq became involved with Ellen’s foundation and later wrote a letter praising him.

``The United States will, in my opinion, lose a valuable opportunity for communication in the Middle East if Abu Yusef (Ellen’s Muslim name) is further restricted from his honorable efforts for the part of the widows, orphans and handicapped and the elderly in Palestine,″ Marzouq wrote.

Biden’s dangerous irresponsibility.

from FP: February 16, 2021, 3:01 PM

It is still too soon to know whether the foreign policy of the Biden administration will fall on the left or the right side of the liberal internationalist consensus among centrist Democrats. Indeed, U.S. President Joe Biden’s team can’t know the answer themselves, for it is only in reaction to unforeseen events that a president’s foreign policy fully reveals itself. Nevertheless, there are telltale signs, and both sides are eager to assign them meaning.

No appointment that Biden has made has provoked as much controversy as his choice of Robert Malley, most recently the head of the International Crisis Group, as special envoy to Iran. (See, for example, this recent piece in the New York Times.) Matt Duss, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s top foreign-policy advisor, welcomed the announcement as a sign that Biden wouldn’t back down in fights with “hardliners.” In the New York Times op-ed page, on the other hand, Bret Stephens declared that the decision “beggars belief” and demonstrates that “Biden’s foreign policy will be coldly transactional.”

Cater as a mentor.. lol.

Thanks Marv.

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