Chuck continues with the obligatory "right-wing critics" meme by saying these "critics" (hard-line Israeli backers) "pounced on him," claiming that an anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian bias was evident in much of his writing. Some even went so far as to write he was "influenced by his father, Simon Malley, a well-known journalist born in Egypt who had ties to the Egyptian government."
Obama was fully aware that to further involve Malley in his Middle East policies would set off the "critics." Nevertheless, he went forward with the appointment, knowing that the link between ISIS and the brutal military occupation of Palestinian would emerge.
Earlier this year, the "critics" screamed loudly when in March, Obama elevated Malley to be his new Middle East National Security chief.
That appointment came three days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress. I began a posting for Wall Writings at the time:
"President Barack Obama delivered a stinging response to the latest in a series of Netanyahu diplomatic insults...
"The President chose Robert Malley (above) as Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region."Special Assistant Malley will begin his new assignment April 6. The news of the Malley promotion raised hardly a ripple in U.S. mainstream and cable news media, currently obsessing over Hillary Clinton's email servers.
"Pro-Israel media outlets, however, rushed to sound the alarm. The word went out to Israel's staunch U.S. backers, 'Obama has struck back with the dangerous Malley.'"
Earlier, in a posting February 2, 2014, one of the most avid U.S. Israel media backers, Pamela Geller, warned her right-wing blog followers (note the false adjectival "Hamas adviser"):
"President Obama has named Hamas adviser Robert O. Malley the senior director at the National Security Council (NSC). You may recall that Malley was foreign policy adviser to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2007, and was fired from his campaign team in 2008 because of his notorious ties to Hamas, the PLO and other jihadist, anti-Israel groups.
"Atlas readers are long familiar with this subversive jihad operative. As early as 2007 and 2008 (and repeatedly throughout the campaign and in my book), I warned Atlas readers of the troubling relationship between Robert O. Malley and Barack Hussein Obama.
Robert Malley told the NY Times that he had regularly been in contact with Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the State Department."
Malley was a journalist at the time, interviewing any source he could find to understand the internal dynamics of Hamas.
That is what journalists do, as it appears our mainline media is "forbidden" to do on this issue by its current ideological masters.
Republican candidates are currently dominating the space and bandwidth of that media while they seek to outdo one another in bragging about how vicious they would be in dealing with ISIS.
Rob Malley's linkage of the growing power of ISIS to Israel's unrestrained occupation and brutality to Palestinians, would be a much wiser course for the candidates to consider.
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