Re: R. Malley is Jewish - So What? He is Still Anti-Israel!
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Posted by Bill Narvey on 17:41:19 2008/11/12
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R. Malley is Jewish posted by JM
Checking on Wikpedia, the following is stated:
"Malley and his views have recently come under attack from critics, such as Martin Peretz of the magazine The New Republic, who has opined that Malley is "anti-Israel", a "rabid hater of Israel. No question about it",[14] and that several of his articles in the New York Review of Books were "deceitful." [15] On the conservative webzine The American Thinker, Ed Lasky asserted that Malley "represents the next generation of anti-Israel activism".[5]
Malley told the Jewish Daily Forward that "it tends to cross the line when it becomes as personal and as un-based in facts as some of these have been". While he loved and respected his father, he said, their views sometimes differed, and it is "an odd guilt by association" fallacy to criticize him based on his father's views.[5] Simon Malley was called a sympathizer of the PLO by Daniel Pipes.[16]
In response to what they called "vicious, personal attacks" on Malley, five Jewish, former U.S. government officials former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Ambassador Martin Indyk, Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, Ambassador Dennis Ross, and former State Department Senior Advisor Aaron David Miller published a letter (dated February 12, 2008) in the New York Review of Books defending Malley.[5] They wrote that the attacks on Malley were "unfair, inappropriate, and wrong," and objected to what they called an attempt "to undermine the credibility of a talented public servant who has worked tirelessly over the years to promote Arab-Israeli peace and US national interests." [17] This view is also shared by M.J. Rosenberg, Director of Policy for Israel Policy Forum and a former editor at AIPAC, who condemned the attacks on Malley, writing that Malley is "pro-Israel" and the only reason he is being criticized by extremists is because he supports Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.[18]"
Malley has proven himself pro-Israel within the context of American foreign policy and perception that a 2 state peace solution with the Palestinians is in Israel's best interests.
That is the conventional Western view where all Western nations support the Quartet's 2 state solution peace efforts.
Malley however has been part of the American brain trust that continues to foster the view that a 2 state peace solution is possible because the Palestinians like the proverbial Western stereotypical person, has their price, which while may be exhorbitant, will it is believed not be impossible to be met by Israel without Israel committing National suicide or terminally weakening herself to be destroyed in the next wave of Jew hatred by the Palestinians and the Arabs.
In this context, Malley, like his supporters above stated are of course pro-Israel.
The problem with that however is that Malley and his ilk continue to:
- demand that Israel assuage the anger of the Palestinians by being good sports and humoring the Palestinians by publically accepting blame for Palestinian misery which the Palestinians blame Israel for without accepting any blame themselves
- Demand that Israel accept the lie of the Palestinian right of return, at least in a nominal way, without any recognition that as many Jews were thrown out of Arab lands with all their wealth confiscated by the state only because they were Jewish
- Demand that Israel accept or turn a blind eye to the fact that it will take a generation or two for Palestinian Jew hatred to dissipate, if it dissipates at all and thus Israel should weather the storm of that Jew hatred until it disappears, if it disappears;
- Demands that Israel accept that Palestinians can only offer their word and therefore Israel should accept the Palestinian word as being a significant concession, notwithstanding that no one expects Palestinians to keep their word
- Demand that Israel accept America's and the West's views that the Israeli citizens whom have been pejoratively labelled settlers by the West and forcing a compliant and complicit Israeli government to prosecute and persecute these citizens who claim rights to possess and live in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
- Demand that Israel accede to Palestinian demands that the Judea and Samaria be given them and be Judenrein while Palestinians should be entitled to live anywhere in Israel
- Demand that Israel must continue to give Palestinians territorial concessions and those concessions earlier given in return for broken Palestinian promises cannot be re-claimed.
I could go on, but for me the message is clear. Robert Malley, Sandy Berger, Martin Indyk, Daniel Kurtzer, Dennis Ross and others who jumped on the support Malley bandwagon, are all anti-Israel to the extent that they are pushing a 2 state peace solution on Israel where the reality is that the Palestinians do not want peace. They just want all of Israel, if not in one fell swoop, then in stages.
It looks like Rahm Emanuel is a Jew cut from the same anti-Israel mindset as Malley and friends.
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