Robert Malley is a curious specimen. He comes from a radical, violent communist, anti-American upbringing by far-left parents. Now we can understand why Obama, Kerry and Biden-Harris trusted him so much.
He is the son of Simon Malley, a far-left Syrian Jew who worked as a foreign correspondent for the Egyptian government-owned newspaper Al Gomuria, which was a mouthpiece of Nasser’s regime. Simon Malley spent much of his time in New York, writing about — and celebrating — so-called anti-imperial movements in Africa.
He especially admired the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), anti-French Arab rebels whose terror tactics used against the French pieds noirs in Algeria apparently did not bother him. With the French gone, the FLN remained in power from 1962 to 1988, the only party in a one-party state. Since then the FLN has ruled as primus inter partes in a series of coalition governments where, no matter what civilians seem to rule, real power remains in the hands of the iron-fisted Algerian military.
Some say that it was Simon Malley who put the FLN on the world map. Not something to be proud of.