The Jewish Press: "Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns"

[bidenista]

Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns

By: Aaron Klein
Date Posted: January 30, 2008

JERUSALEM – While officials here largely maintain a policy against interfering in U.S. presidential politics, some Israeli security officials quietly expressed "concern" about an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.

The officials noted that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.

Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state....

More: http://www.jewishpress.com/displaycontent_new.cfm?contentid=29359&contentname=Obama%20Policy%20Adviser%20Raises%20Israeli%20Concerns§ionid=14&mode=a&recnum=0

[tishaLA]

1. First Said, now this....

will the 'Hussein' memes come next?

[bidenista]

2. this is on the front page of america's biggest jewish paper

If Obama is the nominee, he needs to send a clear message to Jewish voters. The last thing we need is to lose them in the GE.

[bidenista]

3. kick. nt

:kick:

[jody]

4. I heard a rumor that Obama will appoint Louis Farrakhan as Secretary of State.

:rofl: :sarcasm:

[cali]

5. Has this paper endorsed anyone?

Malley is widely respected, and this isn't from a remotely unbiased source.

[BenDavid]

6. Good to see this being raised. Will hold my opinion for now.