Robert Malley Part 1

Robert Malley

Once again the Grassroot Conservative spotlights another surrogate and sycophant of George Soros and one of Barack Obama’s radical fellow travelers. The Grassroot Conservative believes unelected people who have hidden, sinister and anti-American agendas, are directing our government. These people are doing great harm to our nation and endangering American citizens.

Robert 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). Robert’s father, Simon Malley (1923–2006), was an Egyptian-born Jewish journalist who grew up in Egypt and worked as a foreign correspondent for Al Goumhourya, Gamal Abdul Nasser's official government newspaper. Simon Malley was a key figure in the Egyptian Communist Party. Simon hated Israel and was a close friend of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. He also helped put the FLN on the world map.

Simon was a constant critic of “Western imperialism” and supported revolutionary “national liberation movements” around the world including, of course, the PLO. Simon Malley received Soviet funding and he supported the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In 1969 the Malleys moved to France and Simon founded the magazine Africasia which trumpeted the causes of the newly-independent states such as Algeria and Egypt, and left-wing national liberation movements around the world.

The Malleys lived in France until 1980, when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing expelled Simon Malley from the country. The Grassroot Conservative does not know why Malley was expelled. Simon Malley spent time in Geneva, Switzerland and returned to France after François Mitterrand's election.

Simon’s son, Robert Malley attended Yale University, and was a 1984 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in political philosophy. There he wrote his doctoral thesis about Third-worldism and its decline. Robert wrote on foreign policy topics, but focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School, where he met his future wife, Caroline Brown. Barack Obama was Malley’s fellow law school student and colleague.

In 1991-1992, Malley clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White, his wife clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

After his Supreme Court clerkship, Malley became a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he published The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam. This book charts Algerian politics from 1900 to the present. He explored the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the crisis in Algeria. His book received critical acclaim from leftists.

Malley served in the Clinton administration as Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council from 1994–1996. In that post he helped coordinate refugee policy, promoted democracy and human rights abroad and helped direct U.S. policy toward Cuba. From 1996-1998 he was Executive Assistant to National Security Advisor Samuel Berger. (Remember Berger, he took classified U.S. documents home with him.) In October 1998 Malley was appointed Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs, a post he held until the end of the administration in 2001.

After the Clinton administration, Malley became Senior Policy Advisor for the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Development in Washington, D.C. He later became Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Washington, D.C., and supervised the Center’s analysts in Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Tel Aviv and Baghdad. Malley and his analysts covered events from Iran to Morocco but focused heavily on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the situation in Iraq, Islamic movements in the Middle East and developments in the U.S. that affect policy toward the Middle East. ICG, which receives funding from the Open Society Institute of George Soros.