Foggy Bottom Spinner Jen Psaki Runs Interference for Abbas and Hamas

The "P" is silent--and the chick is clueless:

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday engaged in an “amazing, Alice in Wonderland-quality exchange,” in the words of blogger Elder of Ziyon, of verbal gymnastics to defend the U.S. government’s support of the newly formed Fatah-Hamas unity government. 

In a transcript of her press briefing, Psaki insisted that the new government that would rule the Palestinian Authority under PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was purely technocratic, justifying the U.S. support for the regime claiming Hamas was not actually part of the government. 

But then Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked how there could be a unity government, in essence, the unification of Hamas and Fatah, without Hamas playing role? 

Psaki then said  that a rocket attack that struck Israel from Gaza on Wednesday would  not have any bearing on the U.S. decision to support the PA and continue to fund the regime

“Obviously, we’re concerned about it and we condemn it in the strongest terms. But his – President Abbas’s ability to impact these type of attacks is really severely limited at this point in time,” she said. 

Furthermore,

Pskai said: “Well, as you know, there are no members of Hamas in the technocratic unity government – technocratic government, I should call it, which is the accurate term for it. That is one of our criteria for continuing to provide assistance.”

In other words, as long as the unity government is technically technocratic (come again?), Obama will fund it on that basis, even though it amounts to splitting hairs and using a technicality to yet again allow the Palestinian government to evade responsibility for Palestinian actions. 

Psaki's spin is, in a word, psickening.