President Biden's beleaguered US special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, who was suspended last year and is under investigation by the FBI, will teach a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Yale University.
Murray will be teaching a class this semester called “The Israeli-Palestinian Struggle,” which will “take a deep look at important issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” according to the report. Yale Daily News.
According to the media, the class has a capacity of 18 students and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Students were reportedly required to arrange a meeting with Mr Murray and attend an interview before registering for the course. This course consists of 13 weekly discussions and assigned readings.
“Following the October 7 incident, I wondered if it still made sense or if it was best to wait,” Marie said, according to the school's newspaper. “Ultimately, I concluded that it became even more important for me to work with the school to create an environment where students could learn more about this topic and have thoughtful and respectful conversations with other students.”
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President Biden's beleaguered US special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Hearing in Washington, DC, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The newspaper reported that Coase's readings include “excerpts from Theodor Hersel, Mahmoud Darwish, John Mearsheimer, Benjamin Netanyahu and others, while primary sources include Israeli law, the Religious Zionist Party's “It includes excerpts from the Palestinian National Charter” and the 2017 Hamas Charter. ”
In teaching this course, Murray said he is “well aware of how polarizing and even harmful the debate surrounding Israel and Palestine can be,” adding, “Everyone, myself included, is biased. “I am well aware of the fact that I have prejudice against others.”
“I’m trying to take whatever steps I can to address it. [Students] There is no need to hide or change your thoughts, just listen and try to understand your peers,” he added.
Malley, who has been special envoy to Iran since January 2021, is currently on leave as he is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly mishandling classified documents. He was placed on administrative leave by the State Department last June amid an investigation into his security clearance.
Murray played a key role in the Biden administration's recovery efforts. 2015 Iran nuclear deal. In 2018, then-President Donald Trump chose to abandon the deal and reimpose sanctions on Iran.
Asked about the status of the investigation, a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital in an October statement: “Rob Malley remains on leave and has no further comment. The State Department does not comment on individual security clearances. ” he said.
Mr. Malley is also sympathetic to the practices of certain terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, and has a history of encouraging the United States to engage in dialogue with these organizations.
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In teaching this course, Murray said he is “well aware of how polarizing and even harmful the debate surrounding Israel and Palestine can be,” adding, “Everyone, myself included, is biased. “I am well aware of the fact that I have prejudice against others.” (Fox News Digital)
After working in the Clinton administration and before joining the Biden administration, Murray spoke with Hamas officials and told Time magazine in 2006, “America's Middle East policy is flawed, and here's how to fix it.'' I also wrote an article called “. He said, “Today, the United States has nothing to say with Iran, Syria, Hamas, the elected Palestinian government, or Hezbollah. A policy was created with this in mind.”
The US government has designated the Iranian regime as the world's worst state sponsor of international terrorism, and designated Hamas and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement as terrorist organizations. Iranian regime supports HamasAccording to the Israeli government, a massacre of Israelis and Americans took place in southern Israel on October 7th.
In a 2009 documentary interview, Mr. Murray mentioned Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Sadrist movement in Iraq, saying, “It's a mistake to think only in terms of terrorist violence,” and that they are “social movements and political movements. It is probably the movement that is most deeply rooted in each society.
“There's so much misinformation out there about them. … I talk to them, my colleagues talk to them.” [Hamas]And now we may not agree with them, but they have their own rationality. . . None of them are crazy.” Marie said in the movie, titled “Culture of Resistance.” Mr. Murray was program director for the Middle East and North Africa division of the International Crisis Group.
He also said that Hamas “has charity organizations and social branches. It is not something that can be defeated militarily and people need to understand that.”
Last fall, when Fox News Digital asked a State Department spokesperson whether Marley had defended or promoted Hamas, he replied, “The U.S. government designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.”
Murray has been the US special envoy to Iran since January 2021, but is currently on leave as he is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly mishandling classified documents. (Ricardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Murray and his alleged foreign spying iran team There are growing concerns about contacts with Hamas, which is collaborating with Iran to launch a scorched-earth war against the Jewish state.
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Dan Diker, director of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, criticized Marley, saying he is “a compatriot of the Iranian regime, a supporter of the Iranian regime, and a defender of Hezbollah and Hamas.”
Diker added: “Marie led us into this ISIS-like alleyway that Jews haven't seen since the Holocaust.”
Fox News' Benjamin Weinthal and Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report.
