Meet Robert Malley, the head negotiator of our glorious new Iran Deal
Till today, I hadn’t done research on Robert Malley, the Iran Deal’s chief negotiator (new deal as well as old deal). But I’ve been curious, and today I finally managed to do some brief research on him. I think it’s very instructive to learn the history of the person Biden or “Biden” chose to be chief negotiator with Iran – who is the same person Obama had chosen for the position during his administration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So although Malley is an ethnic Jew (from the Middle East), his real identification – and the real religion in which he was raised – is the left. He has certainly proven his leftist bona fides. Interesting also that he went to school with Blinken, although it doesn’t say whether they were friends there.
As far as I can tell, Malley never had to have any Congressional approval to become the Iran negotiator and I don’t think there is any Congressional oversight of him now.
More from Malley’s Wiki page:
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.
It becomes more clear that Malley is a leftist who has no sense of obligation to protect the US or Israel or even perhaps the Western world. It is also fairly clear that the powers-that-be in the Biden administration thought Malley did a bang-up job conceding to Iran in the previous deal he negotiated, and that his instructions were probably to give away the farm this time.
Rather like a malevolent character in an Allan Drury novel.
One wonders what allegiance Malley feels towards the US, given his upbringing and ideologies. The description of the Camp David summit in which he claims Arafat was “forced” to refuse the proposals sounds a whole lot like the current group who are claiming that Putin was “forced” to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Appointing someone like this to “negotiate” with Iran gives us a clear view of how little the Biden/Obama crew think of America.
One wonders what allegiance Malley feels towards the US, given his upbringing and ideologies.
You know as well as I do that the only allegiance he feels is to People Like Me.
Neo, if links are permitted, here is David Harsanyi on Robert Malley:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/find-someone-who-looks-at-you-like-rob-malley-looks-at-iran/
I have read other profiles of Malley that I can’t find now, were published a year or more ago, that were more disturbing.
He was chosen for this role by people who really, really do not like America protecting its interests in the Middle East, and who despise and detest Israel. I pray that he fails.
Malley’s father was too anti-Israel for *France*.
One of the cancer cells determined to throw the world into its darkest age.
“He was chosen for this role by people who really…”
Indeed; but I suspect that Malley’s even “greater” QUALIFICATION is that the Usual Suspects(TM)—whose specialty is subterfuge, deceit, perversity and a very special brand of humor—can haul out , in this case, the “but-Malley’s-JEWISH!!” DEFENSE!!…
(Of course, so is SOROS, at least nominally; which has prompted the same Usual Suspects(TM) to all too often apoplectically shriek “ANTI-SEMITISM!!” whenever criticism is directed at that paragon….)
File under: Sigh….
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“…which made it impossible for Arafat to accept Barak’s offer….”
Ah, but there is NOTHING that the Israelis can offer the Palestinians that the Palestinians can accept. That’s the beauty of it all….
Another Ivy Leaguer who has no clue. Iran wants to kill us. It’s not like the Yale v. Harvard football game.
Malley and Blinken discover who they are working for:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/03/11/joe-bidens-failure-tour-continues-after-iran-deal-falls-apart-and-leaves-americans-holding-the-bag-n534591
Schafenfreud. They tried so hard to really give Iran everything it and they wanted but Vlad had to do that Ukraine thing. Unintended, unanticipated consequences, schadenfreud.
You know who I want in those State Department positions? Former football players from the military academies; preferable linemen or defensive backs. Absent that, former Creighton baseball or basketball players. We need some tough, gritty and realistic people. People who believe in God and know that there is still evil in the world.
You know who I want in those State Department positions? Former football players from the military academies; preferable linemen or defensive backs. Absent that, former Creighton baseball or basketball players. We need some tough, gritty and realistic people. People who believe in God and know that there is still evil in the world.
Perhaps. IMO, the State Department has tended in the past to emphasize in its recruitment indicia of miscellaneous liberal education as opposed to subject expertise. The culture and society in which we live at this time, they get people who despise the country in which they grew up. See Lewis Amselem’s remarks on the subject. In his work, he had occasion to attend meetings at which Hillary Clinton was present. He said that her observable attitude toward her country was above-the-median compared with Foreign Service professionals.
Have a look at this guy Malley. The man has three post-secondary degrees: one in law, one in the literary end of political science, and one he won’t specify. I haven’t found a full bibliography and end notes to his dissertation, but samples of them appear on Google Books. In all the samples, the references are to secondary sources in English or French, and none are references to statistical sources.
If/when the GOP takes back Congress they should make perfectly clear to the world explaining that the Iran deal will have no force and effect binding the US because it is a treaty that will not have been ratified.
About time that the GOP stood up for the constitution. The people are fed up with government which snubs it.
Malley did not need to be “instructed” to give away the farm. He adores Iran and despises Israel, sharing the mullahs wish for its elimination.
The Mad Mullahs will get their wish list from Joey Plugs, amp up their nuke program & the Israeli’s will take it out just like they did to Iraq in 1981. Then the sh*t will hit the fan again–this time it’ll be the Sunni Arab states plus Israel vs Iran.