The Obama pattern of deception continues.  Remember how earlier in Obama’s campaign, Obama withdrew Robert Malley’s as his hand-picked foreign policy adviser?

Obama didn’t want to lose his Jewish vote bloc.  As we all know, most Jews predictably vote Democrat out of some sort of loyalty to Roosevelt, even before anyone knew that Roosevelt himself turned back shiploads of Jews fleeing the Nazi ovens, but that’s for another post.  Now that Obama has won the Jewish vote, he has re-hired Robert Malley.

Robert Malley advocates negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.

Malley has written numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the mass murderer Yasser Arafat, petitioning for “dialogue” with Hamas and blasting Israel for harming “the Palestinian cause”.

Robert Malley was raised in France. His father, Simon Malley (1923-2006), was a key figure in the Egyptian Communist Party. A passionate hater of Israel, the elder Malley was a close friend and confidante of the late PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat; an inveterate critic of “Western imperialism”; a supporter of various revolutionary “liberation movements,” particularly the Palestinian cause; a beneficiary of Soviet funding; and a supporter of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

According to American Thinker news editor Ed Lasky, Simon 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.”

Naomi Ragen writes:

While the friends of Israel have been busy kvelling over the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, little noted is the sudden return of PLO-loving, anti-Israel Robert Malley, sent to Syria by President-elect Obama to apparently begin negotiations over “change” in the Middle East. Syria still has nuclear material, by the way, caught by satellites.

Below, an [excerpted] article about Malley’s sudden reappearance after supposedly being “dropped” by Obama as we were told during the campaign.

John Perazzo of FrontPageMagazine writes:

History will record that Barack Obama’s first act of diplomacy as America’s president-elect took place two days after his election victory, when he dispatched his senior foreign-policy adviser, Robert Malley, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad-to outline for them the forthcoming administration’s Mideast  policy vis-à-vis those nations. An aide to Malley reports,”The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests” than has President Bush.

The Bush administration, it should be noted, has rightly recognized Syria to be not only a chief supporter of the al Qaeda insurgency in Iraq, but also the headquarters ofthe terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the longtime sponsor of Hamas-the terrorist army whose founding charter is irrevocably committed to the annihilation of Israel. Yet unlike President Bush, Obama and Malley have called for Israel to engage in peace negotiations with Syria.In a July 2001 op-ed which Malley penned for the New York Times, he alleged that Israeli-not Palestinian-inflexibility had caused the previous year’s Camp David peace talks (brokered by Bill Clinton) to fall apart. This was one of several controversial articles Malley has written-some he co-authored with Hussein Agha, a former adviser to Arafat-blaming Israel and exonerating Arafat (the most prolific Jew-killer since Adolph Hitler) for the failure of the peace process.

Malley’s identification of Israel as the cause of the Camp David impasse has been widely embraced by Palestinian and Arab activists around the world, by Holocaust deniers like Norman Finkelstein, and by anti-Israel publications such as Counterpunch. It should be noted that Malley’s account of the Camp David negotiations is entirely inconsistent with the recollections of the key figures who participated in those talks-specifically, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton, and then-U.S.Ambassador Dennis Ross (Clinton’s Middle East envoy).

For more information on Robert Malley, see Robert Malley and Who Is Robert Malley?

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