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> Ex-Obama adviser's pro-Hamas views 'well known'
> Robert Malley quit after media re****ted his contacts with terror group
> Posted: May 11, 2008
> 11:12 pm Eastern
>
>
> By Aaron Klein
> © 2008 WorldNetDaily
>
>
>
>
> JERUSALEM - An adviser to Sen. Barack Obama who quit after it was
re****ted
> he held talks with Hamas was a well-known sup****ter of negotiations with
> Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
>
> Robert Malley, an employee of the International Crisis Group, said he
> served as an "informal" Middle East adviser to Obama. He told NBC News
> this past weekend he decided to step down after the Times of London
> inquired about whether he had contacts with Hamas.
>
> "I decided based on the fact that this was becoming a distraction that
it
> was best that I remove myself from any association with the campaign,"
> Malley told NBC.
>
> Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt issued a statement to the Times: "Malley has,
> like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign
> in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play
> any role in the future."
>
> Malley's pro-Hamas views, though, were no secret.
>
> WND re****ted in January Malley has penned numerous opinion articles,
many
> of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian
Authority
> President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and
blasting
> Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
>
> In February 2006, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian
> parliament and amid a U.S. and Israeli attempt to isolate the Hamas-run
> Palestinian Authority, Malley wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun
> advocating international aid to the terror group's newly formed
> government.
>
> "The Islamists (Hamas) ran on a campaign of effective government and
> promised to improve Palestinians' lives; they cannot do that if the
> international community turns its back," wrote Malley in a piece
entitled,
> "Making the Best of Hamas' Victory."
>
> (Story continues below)
>
>
> Malley contended the election of Hamas expressed Palestinian "anger at
> years of humiliation and loss of self-respect because of Israeli
> settlement expansion, Arafat's imprisonment, Israel's incursions,
Western
> lecturing and, most recently and tellingly, the threat of an aid cut off
> in the event of an Islamist success."
>
> Malley said the U.S. should not "discourage third-party unofficial
> contacts with [Hamas] in an attempt to moderate it."
>
> In an op-ed in the Wa****ngton Post in January coauthored by Arafat
adviser
> Hussein Agha, Malley - using could be perceived as anti-Israel language
-
> urged Israel's negotiating partner Abbas to reunite with Hamas.
>
> "A renewed national compact and the return of Hamas to the political
fold
> would upset Israel's strategy of perpetuating Palestinian geographic and
> political division," wrote Malley.
>
> He further petitioned Israel to hold talks with Hamas.
>
> "An arrangement between Israel and Hamas could advance both sides'
> interests," he wrote.
>
> In numerous other op-eds, Malley advocates a policy of engagement with
> Hamas.
>
> Hamas is responsible for scores of deadly shootings, suicide bombings
and
> rocket attacks aimed at Jewish civilian population centers. The past few
> weeks alone, Hamas militants took credit for firing more than 200
rockets
> into Israel.
>
> Hamas' official charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of
> Israel.
>
> Hamas maintained a national unity government with Palestinian Authority
> President Mahmoud Abbas until the Palestinian leader dissolved the
> agreement and deposed the Hamas prime minister last year.
>
> Hamas in recent days has become a campaign issue for Obama, who has
> repeatedly called Hamas a terror group that should be isolated.
>
> Last week, Obama and Sen. John McCain traded barbs about a Hamas
> endorsement that came during an interview with WND and with WABC Radio.
>
> Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, expressed
> "hope" Obama will win the presidential elections and he compared the
> Illinois senator to John F. Kennedy.
>
> McCain mentioned Hamas' praise of Obama during several national
> interviews.
>
> Obama claimed McCain's statements were a "smear."
>
> Obama also came under fire after it was re****ted his Trinity United
Church
> of Christ newsletter reprinted an opinion piece by a top Hamas official
> that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize
the
> right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official
> charter - which calls for the murder of Jews - to America's Declaration
of
> Independence.
>
> The Hamas piece was published on Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Pastor's Page,"
> which later printed an open letter by a pro-Palestinian activist that
> labeled Israel an "apartheid" regime and claimed the Jewish state worked
> on an "ethnic bomb" that kills "blacks and Arabs."
>
>
> --
> "I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I
> would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be
working
> for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic
group.
> And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
> April 11 2007 B.Hussein Obama
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