פוליטיקו: הFBI חוקר האם ה שליח לענייני איראן של ממשל ביידן, רוב מאלי, העביר מידע מסווג למייל האישי שלו, משם דלף.  

Malley argues that negotiations with the Palestinians today must include Hamas because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is no longer considered the Palestinian people's sole legitimate representative. He describes the PLO as antiquated, worn out, barely functioning, and, because it does not include the broad Islamist current principally represented by Hamas, of questionable authority. Malley favors negotiating with Hamas at least for the purpose of a ceasefire—citing Hamas officials in Gaza who made clear they were prepared for such an agreement with Israel.

In 2008, he supported efforts to reach an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, including an immediate end to Palestinian rocket launches and sniper fire and a freeze on Israeli military attacks on Gaza. Malley's arguments rested on both humanitarian and practical grounds. Malley pointed to the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip had not stopped Hamas's rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns and claimed that the siege caused millions of Gazans to suffer from lack of medicine, fuel, electricity and other essential commodities. Thus, a cease-fire would avoid "enormous loss of life, a generation of radicalized and embittered Gazans, and another bankrupt peace process."

Malley has published many articles in which he calls upon the Israelis (and the international community) to bring Hamas to the negotiating table in order to secure an Israeli–Palestinian ceasefire and insure that any agreement reached with Palestinians will be respected by the Islamist movements in Palestinian society too.