{"id":1493041,"date":"2022-05-26T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493041"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:16:21","slug":"bidens-iran-envoy-terrorist-groups-hamas-hezbollah-are-misunderstood-have-their-own-rationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-iran-envoy-terrorist-groups-hamas-hezbollah-are-misunderstood-have-their-own-rationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Iran Envoy: Terrorist Groups Hamas, Hezbollah Are Misunderstood, \u2018Have Their Own Rationality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-iran-envoy-terrorist-groups-hamas-hezbollah-are-misunderstood-have-their-own-rationality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Special Envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, whose anti-Israel positions have been cited as well as his ambition to secure a nuclear deal (JCPOA) with arch-terrorist state Iran, has said that the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah are simply misunderstood by the West.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), possibly the staunchest opponent of Iran in the U.S. Senate, reacted harshly when reports indicated Biden would select Malley for his current post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s deeply troubling that President Biden would consider appointing Rob Malley to direct Iran policy,\u201d he stated. \u201cMalley has a long track record of sympathy for the Iranian regime &#038; animus towards Israel. The ayatollahs wouldn\u2019t believe their luck if he is selected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s deeply troubling that President Biden would consider appointing Rob Malley to direct Iran policy. Malley has a long track record of sympathy for the Iranian regime &#038; animus towards Israel. The ayatollahs wouldn\u2019t believe their luck if he is selected. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/caxHhiXjKn\">https:\/\/t.co\/caxHhiXjKn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1352434894484500483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In January, three U.S. officials left the team negotiating with Iran because Malley would not take a harder negotiating position regarding sanctions.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">As another indication of his soft policy toward world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Malley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/25\/politics\/malley-nuclear-deal-tenuous\/index.html\">told<\/a> a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, \u201cThe simple fact is this: as a means of constraining Iran\u2019s nuclear program, the JCPOA was working. Leaving it has not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Malley has stated, \u201cHezbollah and Hamas, there\u2019s so much misinformation about them. I speak to them and my colleagues speak to them. Now, we may disagree with them but they have their own rationality; that\u2019s the one thing to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not \u2014 none of them are crazies,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey may do things that we may consider to belong to a different realm of rationality but within their own system, it\u2019s often very logical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is a reason the Obama\/Biden administrations did not push back on Khamenei &#038; Nasrallah\u2019s power across the Middle East. Hear it from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEnvoyIran?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USEnvoyIran<\/a> himself: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIVCwAle2P\">pic.twitter.com\/xIVCwAle2P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alireza Nader \u0639\u0644\u06cc\u0631\u0636\u0627 \u0646\u0627\u062f\u0631 (@AlirezaNader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlirezaNader\/status\/1529456004034961409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed at the end of the Clinton administration, Malley, who engaged in those talks, publicly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/07\/08\/opinion\/fictions-about-the-failure-at-camp-david.html\">dissented<\/a>\u00a0from Clinton\u2019s own view that the talks failed because of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat\u2019s failure to make a counter-offer,\u201d Bloomberg recalled. \u201cIn 2008, he stopped advising the Obama presidential campaign on foreign policy\u00a0after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/can-one-time-proponent-of-outreach-to-islamists-get-obamas-is-strategy-in-sync\/\">reports emerged<\/a>\u00a0that he had met with leaders of Hamas, an organization the U.S. and Israel consider to be terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wang Xiyue, imprisoned in Iran between 2016 and 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2021-01-21\/biden-s-first-foreign-policy-blunder-could-be-on-iran\">wrote<\/a> that Biden appointing him\u00a0\u201cwould send a chilling signal to the dictatorship in Iran that the United States is solely focused on re-entering the Iran nuclear deal, and ignoring its regional terror and domestic crimes against humanity. It would also send a signal to Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, Lebanese, and all others that are being repressed by the Iranian regime and its proxies that the Biden administration does not care about their human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malley, who had a friendly relationship with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/jul\/20\/comment\">wrote<\/a> in July 2001, in the middle of the murderous Second Intifada in which Palestinians murdered over 1,000 Jews, that the idea of blaming Arafat for the failure of peace talks with Israel \u201cacts as a harmful constraint on American policy by offering up a single, convenient culprit (Arafat) rather than a more nuanced and realistic analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ict.org.il\/#gsc.tab=0\">International Institute for Counter-Terrorism<\/a>, during the Second Intifada, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 \u2013 2005 were civilians. Just between May 2001 and May 2002 there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro\u2019s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 12 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bas-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at caf\u00e9 Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matzah restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Special Envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, whose anti-Israel positions have been cited as well as his ambition to secure a nuclear deal (JCPOA) with arch-terrorist state Iran, has said that the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah are simply misunderstood by the West. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), possibly the staunchest opponent of Iran &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1493097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}