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| DATE | 2023-10-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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I am under missle fire right now
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-iran-envoy-robert-malley-was-critical-of-israel-has-family-ties-to-plo/ar-AA1icIkN
nypost.com
Ex-Iran envoy Robert Malley was critical of Israel, has family ties to
PLO
Isabel Vincent
10–12 minutes
Robert Malley — the State Department bureaucrat and former Iran special
envoy who is mysteriously on leave for allegedly mishandling classified
information — grew up with Palestine Liberation Organization leader
Yasser Arafat as his unofficial “godfather” and once wrote that the
Israeli treatment of Arabs was “shameful.”
Malley is under probe, along with members of his Iran negotiating team,
by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability for allegedly
“compromising ties to the Iranian regime.”
He once tried to normalize relations with Hamas, the Iran-backed
terrorist group which massacred some 1,200 Israelis and at least 27
Americans this week.
The 60-year-old was suspended under a cloud of secrecy by the State
Department in June.
At the time, he confirmed that his security clearance was being
investigated and that he was confident about a positive outcome,
according to a statement he provided to Fox News.
Robert Malley
Robert Malley was the Biden administration’s controversial envoy to
Iran until the State Department put him on leave for allegedly
mishandling confidential documents.
AP
“I have been informed that my security clearance is under review,” he
told the outlet. “I have not been provided any further information, but
I expect the investigation to be resolved favorably and soon. In the
meantime, I am on leave.”
But that might take a while longer with mounting speculation that Iran
financed and helped coordinate the recent attacks on Israel.
Follow along with The Post’s live blog for the latest on Hamas’ attack
on Israel
“He compromised classified information, we think with Iran, and now
there’s a wider investigation into this,” House Foreign Affairs
Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Fox News Thursday.
Although Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there is no “direct
evidence” that Iran was behind the attacks on Israeli citizens, he did
acknowledge that “Iran has had a long relationship with Hamas” in an
interview with NBC Thursday.
Bill Clinton, Nabu Abu Rudineh, Robert Malley and Yasser Arafat
Robert Malley worked for the Clinton administration’s National Security
Council and was included on high-level meetings with former Palestinian
Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat (above right, with, from
right, Malley, Palestinian negotiator Nabi Abu Rudineh and Bill
Clinton).
Getty Images
“Hamas wouldn’t be Hamas without the support over many, many years from
Iran,” Blnken said. “And so, we know that. We see that. When it comes
to this specific attack, in this moment, we don’t have direct evidence
that Iran was involved in the attack, either in planning it or carrying
it out.”
Malley, who served as the Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran
since Jan. 2021, is now teaching at the Yale Jackson School of
International Affairs at Yale University.
Before that, he served as president and CEO of the George Soros-backed
International Crisis Group, a non-profit that works to prevent wars,
according to its website.
In his capacity as a Middle Eastern analyst, he has regularly spoken
with Hamas, and tried to normalize the US’ relationship with Iran — a
situation that has earned him the moniker “Mullah Malley” among his
many detractors in the Iranian opposition.
Simon Malley
Simon Malley, Robert’s father, was an Egyptian-born journalist who
embraced revolutionary causes in the Middle East , Africa and Latin
America. He moved with his family to Paris in 1969 to edit a newsletter
covering liberation movements but was kicked out of the country 11
years later.
New York Post
Brooklyn-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad began a petition last
year to convince the State Department to remove Malley as Iran envoy.
“Now, we respectfully ask President Biden to appoint a new Special
Envoy that the people in the US and in Iran can trust and respect as a
symbol of America’s commitment to freedom and democracy,” she wrote.
Alinejad added that Malley had “minimized” widespread Iranian protests
that broke out after the death of Mahsa Amini, who died in police
custody after she was arrested for not wearing her hijab in a proper
way. The petition has so far gathered more than 136,000 signatures.
Malley is no stranger to controversy, and has followed in the footsteps
of his father — an Egyptian-born Jew and Arab nationalist journalist
who dedicated his life to anti-Israel causes and the developing world.
Simon Malley embraced national liberation movements around the world,
and was a trusted confidant to Arafat and former Cuban leader Fidel
Castro, with whom he once conducted a 20-hour interview, according to
reports.
Fidel Castro
Robert Malley’s father, Simon Malley, once interviewed Fidel Castro in
a 20-hour marathon session.
New York Post
In1969, after covering the United Nations for the Egyptian newspaper Al
Goumhourya, Simon moved his family to Paris to launch Afrique Asie — a
journal that focused on newly independent states such as Egypt and
Algeria and gave a voice to liberation movements around the world.
The journal embraced campaigns that disrupted France’s influence in
Africa. It was banned in several African countries for supporting
radical movements against King Hassan II in Morocco and dictator Mobuto
Sese-Seko in Zaire, among others.
Malley, along with his brother Richard and sister Nadia, attended the
posh École Jeannine Manuel, a bilingual school in Paris where his
future boss Blinken was a classmate.
Antony Blinken, Robert Malley and Iranian activists
Robert Malley (fourth from left) went to grade school in Paris with
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second from left). Malley was part
of a discussion with Iranian activists on last year’s protests in Iran.
Malley is known as “Mullah Malley” to many in the Iranian opposition
for his appeasement of Iran.
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The Malley family’s sojourn in Paris was interrupted when conservative
French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ordered Simon out of the
country and stripped him of his residence permit in 1980.
The expulsion came shortly after Interior Minister Christian Bonnet
told the country’s National Assembly that articles written by Simon
“were genuine appeals to murder foreign heads of state. The French
government cannot tolerate this.”
French authorities put Simon on a plane to New York City, the hometown
of his wife Barbara Silverstein, who had worked with the United Nations
delegation of the Algerian National Liberation Front, or FLN.
Upon arrival in New York, Simon immediately boarded a plane to
Switzerland where he spent eight months editing his newsletter before
returning to France after the election of Francois Mitterand in 1981.
Robert Malley at meeting with John Kerry
Malley, at left, at a briefing with former Secretary of State John
Kerry.
U.S. Department of State
(Arafat, who Malley has written his father “felt close to,” may have
intervened with the French government to help the family get back into
the country.)
By that time, Robert was on his way to Yale University where he wrote
for the student newspaper.
“There is a lot to be said about the Israeli treatment of Arabs —
shameful on the part of a people who suffered more than any other from
the injustices and horrors of racism,” he wrote in one piece. “And the
fact must be faced that the resort to violence by the Palestinians is
the inevitable corollary of the violence done to them.”
Ecole Jeannine Manuel
The elite École Jeannine Manuel in Paris where Antony Blinken and John
Malley went to school.
Jeannine Manuel School
After his studies at Yale, Malley enrolled at Harvard Law School where
Barack Obama was a classmate, and was later a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
University.
Malley worked as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the US
Supreme Court between 1991 and 1992, and two years later joined the
Clinton administration, working as part of the US National Security
Council staff as Director for Democracy.
In 1996, he published a book, “The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism,
Revolution and the Turn to Islam.” The next year, Malley became
Executive Assistant to the National Security advisor, acting as an
informal chief of staff for Samuel Berger, according to his bio on the
Yale website.
In 2006, the year Simon died, Malley offered a solution to fix the
problems in the Middle East in an op-ed for Time magazine. “Today the
US does not talk to Iran, Syria, Hamas, the elected Palestinian
government or Hezbollah,” he wrote. “The result has been a policy with
all the appeal of a moral principle and all the effectiveness of a
tired harangue.”
Yasser Arafat
Former PLO leader Yasser Arafat was a close confidant of Simon Malley
and said to be an unofficial “godfather” to Robert Malley.
AP
in 2008, Malley was forced to resign from the campaign of
then-candidate Barack Obama after it was discovered that he was talking
to officials in the Islamic Resistance Movement of Hamas — only to
later return to the Obama administration as the senior director of the
National Security Council and one of the main architects of the United
States foreign policy in the Middle East.
“There’s so much misinformation about them,” Malley said about the
Hamas leaders with whom he was in regular contact. “I speak to them, my
colleagues speak to them, None of them are crazy, they have their own
rationality. Within their own system … they’re very logical.”
Those comments, which resurfaced after the State Department put Malley
on leave this summer, have generated a barrage of criticism on social
media.
Robert Malley and Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin
Abdulrahman Al-Thani
Robert Malley at a meeting with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed
Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Qatar in 2021.
Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
“-at-Rob_Malley continue to meet & work with Islamic Republic apologists
who by any means want to get money in the hands of Iran’s terrorist
regime! Who is this Senior White House official? Why haven’t they met
with any Iranian American’s who aren’t pro-regime lobbyists?” said one
tweet in June.
“YOU sir, are the reason this regime takes hostages,” said another,
following the release of five American hostages in Iran in exchange for
$6 billion — a controversial deal Malley helped broker. “They know they
can count on you to negotiate with them&give them billions of $$ to
release some selected ones; yet you leave behind Jamshidi Sharmahd who
is sentenced to execution #IranRansomDeal.”
Malley did not return The Post’s requests for comment this week.
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