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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Jen Psaki</title>
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		<title>Even the State Department Spokeswoman Thinks What She&#8217;s Saying is Ridiculous</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jen Psaki&#8217;s main job is to come out on stage and say ridiculous things to explain the ridiculous things that her bosses are doing. But even she thinks that they&#8217;re ridiculous.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not my term for it. <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/04/video-state-dept-spokesperson-stuck-to-her-lines-until-she-thought-her-mic-was-off/?utm_source=TheBlaze.com&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=story&amp;utm_content=video-state-dept-spokesperson-stuck-to-her-lines-until-she-thought-her-mic-was-off">It&#8217;s her term for it.</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki was seemingly caught on a hot mic calling one of her prepared statements on one of America’s policies on Egypt “ridiculous” following a press conference.</p>
<p>When reporters, including the Associated Press’ Matt Lee, pressed her to comment on the acquittal of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, she provided a pre-written response.</p>
<p>“Generally, we continue to believe that upholding impartial standards of accountability will advance the political consensus on which Egypt’s long-term stability and economic growth depends,” she said. “But beyond that, I would refer you to the Egyptian government.”</p>
<p>She refused to say anything further on the matter.</p>
<p>Psaki ended the conference and the lights dimmed. When she seemingly figured her mic was dead, she went off script.</p>
<p>“That Egypt line is ridiculous,” she appears to say.</p></blockquote>
<p>Psaki doesn&#8217;t believe that the Egypt line is ridiculous because she&#8217;s sensible, but because she wants a crackdown on Egypt. But while she gets to bash Israel all day long, Obama has bowed to Egypt and mostly given up the effort to put the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists back into power again. That apparently irks Psaki who would like to blast Egypt, but cooler heads have decided that the US is already really low on allies and alienating a major power in the region would be unwise.</p>
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		<title>Condemnations and Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if Israel had destroyed 800 homes in Gaza instead of the Egyptians? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245399" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki-409x350.jpg" alt="u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki" width="312" height="267" /></a>Let us engage in a brief thought experiment. Imagine three US service members disembarking off their ship docked in the Israeli port of Haifa. They paint the town but are suddenly and unexpectedly surrounded by a group of 12 or so hooligans, who yell epithets at them, call them “murderers,” throw garbage at them, rough them up and then place bags over their heads. Imagine further that the hoodlums are caught and arrested by Israeli authorities but are inexplicably released shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>Let us engage in another thought experiment. Imagine that Israel, under the pretext of ensuring its security, dynamites eight-hundred “Palestinian” homes. The Israelis argue that smuggling tunnels under some of those homes warrant drastic action and announce their intention to construct a barrier where those homes once stood, displacing ten-thousand residents.</p>
<p>These two incidents actually occurred but not in Israel. On November 12, in a sickening display of brute thuggery, three US sailors in Istanbul were <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/politics/turkey-navy-sailors-bags-over-heards/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">assaulted</span></a> by a group of Turkish nationalists. They were roughed up, humiliated, had bags stuffed over their heads and chased to chants of “Yankee go home.” Some of the suspects were apprehended and despite the fact that they showed little remorse, were inexplicably <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/13/turkish-nationalist-group-defiant-after-attack-on-us-navy-sailors/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> by Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>The second incident, involving the wanton <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">destruction</span></a> of some eight-hundred homes and the displacement of some ten-thousand residents occurred in the Egyptian controlled part of Rafah that straddles the border between Sinai and the Hamas enclave of Gaza. It seems that the Egyptians had had enough of Hamas’s shenanigans and decided to act resolutely after as many as 31 Egyptian soldiers were killed in an attack that the Egyptian government blamed on Hamas.</p>
<p>Now let us return to our thought experiment. What was the State Department’s reaction to these two occurrences? In the latter example, there was simply no reaction, only silence. There were no condemnations from John Kerry, no claims by Jen Psaki that such drastic measures were disproportionate and no protests from Obama shills Ben Rhodes, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lecturing-us-on-security-as-the-rockets-fly-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Phillip Gordon</span></a> and Josh Earnest that such sweeping actions amount to collective punishment, are a source of regional instability and present obstacles to peace.</p>
<p>In the former case, the State Department did issue a condemnation but that’s as far as it went. The hooligans responsible for the cowardly attack took their cues directly from their anti-American, Islamist government. During his 12-year reign, President Recep Erdogan worked tirelessly to create a toxic environment conducive to such base anti-American displays. More astonishingly was the muted response from the State Department after the charges against those responsible for the assault were <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/assault-sailors-highlights-turkish-anger-us/2519444.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dropped</span></a>. The lawless message Turkey is conveying to the United States is clear; your servicemen and women can be humiliated and assaulted on Turkish soil with impunity.</p>
<p>Had any of these incidents occurred in Israel, the State Department would have been up in arms. If there’s any doubt about that assertion, consider Jen Psaki’s comments concerning Israel’s decision to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-condemns-terrorist-home-demolition-directive/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">demolish the home</span></a> of a terrorist responsible for crushing a pedestrian with a stolen excavator in August.</p>
<p>Psaki condemned the Israeli decision stating that it amounted to “collective punishment.” In Psaki’s eyes, the destruction of 800 Rafah homes, most of which have no connection to illicit activity, suits the State Department just fine but the targeted demolition of a single home belonging to a confirmed depraved Palestinian terrorist amounts to “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>Now consider the administration’s lackadaisical response to the humiliation of its servicemen on Turkish soil and subsequent dropping of all charges against the culprits by Turkish prosecutors. The State Department’s silence on the matter is deafening. By contrast, when a Palestinian terrorist with U.S. citizenship was shot while throwing gasoline bombs at vehicular traffic, Obama’s State Department went into high gear expressing its “<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/10/233356.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deepest condolences</span></a>” to the terrorist’s family and demanding a “speedy and transparent investigation” into the shooting.</p>
<p>It appears that the Obama administration, which treats friends like enemies and enemies like friends, has adopted one standard for Israel and another for the autocratic governments that surround it. While Russia invades Ukraine, Turkey absorbs chunks of Cyprus and China continues its ethnic cleansing and occupation of Tibet as well as creeping annexation of areas within the South and East China seas, the administration appears besotted by the idea of tearing Israel away from parts of its ancestral land and creating yet another hostile and dysfunctional Arab country right on Israel’s doorstep. The administration’s continued haranguing of one of its closest allies is indicative of the disdain Obama has for Israel and serves only to embolden its genocidal enemies.  But then again, maybe that’s precisely what he wants.</p>
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		<title>Obama Inc. Rejects Joint Chiefs of Staff Defense of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is a better expert on combat... Obama, Psaki or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?]]></description>
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<p>Who exactly appointed Psaki to speak for the administration? In a dispute between the military and the State Department, it&#8217;s strange that Kerry&#8217;s official hand-holder is the one who speaks with the voice of Obama.</p>
<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s not so strange considering who is in the White House.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/chairman-of-joint-chiefs-breaks-wkerry-on-israeli-war-on-hamas/">Chairman of the Joint Chiefs defended Israel&#8217;s actions</a> during its campaign against Hamas terrorism and even said that the military was learning from Israel&#8217;s attempts to prevent civilian casualties.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I actually do think that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties. In fact, about 3 months ago we sent, we asked [IDF Chief of Staff] Benny [Gantz] if we could send a lessons learned team – one of the things we do better than anybody I think is learn – and we sent a team of senior officers and non-commissioned officers over to work with the IDF to get the lessons from that particular operation in Gaza.”</p>
<p>“To include the measures they took to prevent civilian casualties and what they did with tunneling, because Hamas had become very nearly a subterranean society. And so, that caused the IDF some significant challenges. But they did some extraordinary things to try to limit civilian casualties to include calling out, making it known that they were going to destroy a particular structure. Even developed some techniques, they call it roof knocking, to have something knock on the roof, they would display leaflets to warn citizens and population to move away from where these tunnels.”</p>
<p>“But look in this kind of conflict, where you are held to a standard that your enemy is not held to, you’re going to be criticized for civilian casualties. So I think if Benny were sitting here right now he would say to you we did everything we could and now we’ve learned from that mission and we think there are some other things we could do in the future and we will do those.”</p>
<p>“The IDF is not interested in creating civilian casualties they’re interested in stopping the shooting of rockets and missiles, out of the Gaza Strip and in to Israel, and its an incredibly difficult environment, and I can say to you with confidence that I think that … they acted responsible.”</p></blockquote>
<p>S<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/psaki-israel-could-have-done-more-to-prevent-civilian-casualties/">tate Department spokeswoman Psaki however </a>countered that the administration still hates Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that Israel “could have done more” to prevent civilian casualties during the 2014 Gaza War.</p>
<p>Psaki’s comments contradict Gen. Martin Dempsey’s statements on Thursday that Israel went to “extraordinary lengths” to limit civilian casualties and “did what they could” to avoid them.</p>
<p>“It remains the broad view of the entire administration that they could have done more,” Psaki said during a press briefing Friday. “And they should have taken more feasible precautions to prevent civilian casualties.”</p>
<p>AP reporter Matt Lee pointed out that, according to Dempsey, Israel had lived up to the “high standards” to which the Obama administration holds Israel. Still, Psaki said, Israel’s efforts were not enough.</p></blockquote>
<p>So who is a better expert on preventing civilian casualties in combat&#8230; Obama, Psaki or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?</p>
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		<title>State Dept: Throwing Molotov Cocktails at Jews Not Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throwing Molotov cocktails at Jews = just fine]]></description>
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<p>Okay then. <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-palestinians-who-throw-molotov-cocktails-at-israelis-are-not-terrorists/">Good to know.</a></p>
<p>For those keeping track of the State Department&#8217;s moral arc&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Throwing Molotov cocktails at Jews = just fine</p>
<p>2. Jews moving into a neighborhood that Muslims consider their exclusive property = proof that Israel doesn&#8217;t want peace</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration insisted Monday that a Palestinian who was killed by the IDF while attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at Israeli civilians is not a terrorist.</p>
<p>The Palestinian, a teenager with U.S. citizenship, was shot on Friday and buried this weekend wearing a green Hamas headband. The Obama administration said in a statement on Friday that it “expresses its deepest condolences to the family.”</p>
<p>At a State Department briefing today, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked spokesman Jen Psaki whether it is appropriate to offer deepest condolences to the family of someone killed while attempting to carry out an attack on civilians.</p>
<p>“There are reports … that [the Palestinian teenager] was throwing Molotov cocktails at cars on a highway, and I’m wondering, if that is the case, would you still have been so speedy in putting out a statement and offering your condolences to the family?” asked Lee. “The argument that is being made by some in Israel is that this kid was essentially a terrorist, and you don’t agree with that, I assume.”</p>
<p>“Correct, we don’t,” replied Psaki.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure he was just a technocrat throwing Molotov cocktails at Jews. That&#8217;s how Psaki and Kerry justified the PLO-Hamas unity government. Then there was that pesky &#8220;traffic incident&#8221; where a Hamas terrorist killed a three month old baby and a young woman.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s just a distraction from the real issue. Jews living in Jerusalem.</p>
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		<title>State Dept Urges Israel to Avoid Escalating Tensions After Muslim Murder of Israeli-American Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The child flew through the air and fell with her head on the pavement."]]></description>
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<p>That&#8217;s our State Department. Or Saudi Arabia&#8217;s State Department. I&#8217;m never sure. But it is staying focused on what counts; <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186485#.VEiVtvlr7J8">warning Israel not to &#8220;escalate tensions&#8221;</a> by fighting back.</p>
<blockquote><p>The United States on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack at a Jerusalem Light Rail station.</p>
<p>&#8220;We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement quoted by AFP.</p>
<p>&#8220;We urge all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident,&#8221; she added.</p></blockquote>
<p>All sides. The side of the killers and the side of the victims.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t doubt that Hamas will listen to the sage advice of Jen Psaki and stop killing people. And if it doesn&#8217;t, Psaki can always be counted on to condemn Israeli action against Hamas.</p>
<blockquote><p>The baby&#8217;s grandfather said, &#8220;They waited for this girl for a few years &#8230; they just returned from the Western Wall, the first time that the child was at the Western Wall, brought her back toward the Temple Mount, and unfortunately, the  hatred of the Arabs &#8230; no pity or anything. this holy soul and pure girl did not do anything wrong, was murdered for no reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>Halperin said that &#8220;the car began speeding, hit the stroller, the child flew through the air and fell with her head on the pavement. Bled very badly in the brain. The doctors at the hospital did their best and I want to thank them. Her parents are traumatized, they are shaken completely.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This ceasefire that Obama pushed for is working great.</p>
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		<title>State Dept Says PLO/Hamas Making &#8220;Every Effort&#8221; to Fight Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also believe that the mafia is making every effort to fight crime.]]></description>
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<p>I believe that. I also believe that the mafia is making every effort to fight crime.</p>
<p>If the Hamas terrorists who murdered three Israeli teens are caught, they will receive lifetime salaries from the Palestinian Authority<a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=11617"> as part of the $130 million that it </a>pays to terrorists, some of whom carried out terrorist acts for that money.</p>
<p>According to Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, the PLO and Hamas, two terrorist organizations that support terrorism and engage in it and whose terror arms are on the State Department&#8217;s own list of Foreign Terrorist organizations, a<a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-dept-claims-palestinian-govt-making-every-effort-to-abide-by-u-s-requirements/">re making every effort to fight terrorism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>AP reporter Matt Lee pressed State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki about the recently confirmed deaths of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, but Psaki declined to predict how the matter might weigh into the United States’ relationship with Palestine.</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer is it won&#8217;t. Obama doesn&#8217;t care. Until Hamas shoots Trayvon Martin, Obama will go on not caring.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Do you think right now that they are abiding by the requirements?” Lee asked.</p>
<p>“Well,” Psaki answered, “I think the Palestinian Authority and President Abbas and the technocratic government that doesn’t involve members of Hamas — yes, they are making every effort to.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The &#8220;technocratic&#8221; government, one of the more dishonest talking points from a thoroughly dishonest administration, is a Hamas/PLO unity government.</p>
<p>Its members were approved of by Hamas.</p>
<p>Hamas carries out terrorist attacks. The PLO pays salaries to its terrorists.</p>
<p>According to Jen Psaki and the rest of Obama Inc. this counts as &#8220;making every effort to fight terrorism&#8221;. Just like Jen Psaki makes every effort to tell the truth.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182354#.U7LGtvlr7J8">Congress is now pushing to cut foreign aid</a> to the PA/PLO/Hamas regime based on the amount of money it pays to convicted terrorists.</p>
<p>Look for Obama to veto, disregard or bypass any such effort.</p>
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		<title>Obama Inc. Won&#8217;t Stop Funding Hamas Despite Rocket Attack from Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/06/state-department-says-rocket-attacks.html">Jen Psaki made it clear that despite </a>a rocket attack from Gaza, her boss would continue funding the PLO-Hamas unity government.</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: On that, did you – not on the meeting, but did you have anything to say about this new rocket attack into Israel from Gaza?</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: Well, we condemn all rocket fire from Gaza. It is unprovoked aggression against civilian targets and is totally unacceptable. We welcome President Abbas’s prompt and outspoken condemnation of this attack. We note that he has demanded that all the Palestinian factions remain committed to the ceasefire agreement that was signed in Cairo in 2012, and we expect the Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to prevent attacks into Gaza – from Gaza into Israel. But we acknowledge the reality that Hamas currently controls Gaza.</p></blockquote>
<p>Except that Hamas is now part of a unity government with Abbas&#8217; PLO.</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: So this doesn’t have any – this attack doesn’t have anything – won’t have any bearing on your decision to work with the unity government and continue to provide assistance to it?</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: It does not. 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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Except that&#8217;s not the point. Arafat played this same plausible deniability game. Either there&#8217;s a unity government or there isn&#8217;t. If there&#8217;s a unity government, you can no longer claim that you have no control over what Hamas does.</p>
<p>But Obama will keep on funding the PLO/Hamas unity government anyway.</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: Well, yeah, but isn’t that part of the – I mean, that’s part of the entire problem with agreeing to go along and work with a government, is it not? I mean, the Israelis said the whole time that these attacks are going to continue. If you recognize that his ability is extremely limited to prevent this kind of thing, for there to be security cooperation between him, his government, and the Israelis, how is it that you made the leap to go ahead and say, “All right, this is a government that we can do business with?”</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: Well, this is one – this was the creation of an interim technocratic government. Obviously, at some point there will be elections. This is an interim period. As we’ve long stated, we’ll – we’re continuing assistance if we – but we’ll be watching closely and if something changes, so will – we’ll act accordingly. But nothing &#8211;<br />
QUESTION: So how many more rocket attacks do there have to be before you decide that it’s – that we made a mistake?</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer is infinity plus. Psaki, like her boss, keeps repeating &#8220;technocratic&#8221; as if it&#8217;s some kind of magic word.</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: So even though it is backed by Hamas and you hold Hamas responsible for this rocket attack today, that – you don’t see a connection? No?</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: I’m not suggesting we don’t understand the connection, Matt. But again, this is a case where President Abbas strongly condemned these actions. We think he should do everything possible to prevent them from happening and to call for and provoke unity among these groups. But we understand at this point in time there’s very little that he can do to prevent them.</p>
<p>QUESTION: Why is it in your interest to continue to deal with the interim government notwithstanding this rocket attack?</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: Because the Palestinian people and our relationship with the Palestinian Authority is an important relationship to the United States. We continue to believe that support to them is something that is important to the United States.</p></blockquote>
<p>There you have it. Obama Inc. will be funding Hamas because relationships with terrorists are important to the US.</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: But if Hamas feels that it can shoot rockets from Gaza into Israel with impunity and this has no effect whatsoever, for example, on its ability to form a unity government with the PA, even if there are no Hamas members in the actual government – you have a disincentive that you could use here, which would be to stop dealing with the unity government or to stop funding it, and that might tell Hamas, “Well, maybe we should think twice about sending rockets in.” But the way you’ve cast it, they can send an unlimited number of rockets in and they can still be supportive of this unity government and you’ll still give the unity government and the PA money.</p>
<p>MS. PSAKI: Well, we made a decision as the United States Government that our assistance to the Palestinian Authority is important to the United States.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Ending Abbas’s Winning Streak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Palestinian-leader-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233440" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Palestinian-leader-Mahmoud-Abbas-450x300.jpg" alt="Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas holds a" width="312" height="208" /></a>Mahmoud Abbas must be great at cards.</p>
<p>The PLO chief has no real assets to speak of.</p>
<p>He’s physically unattractive. He has zero charisma. He’s old.</p>
<p>And no matter how hard he tries, Abbas can’t do much of anything to dampen public support for Hamas or raise public support for himself. By many accounts, if elections are ever held, Hamas would win them in a walk.</p>
<p>As for money, beyond the PLO’s slush fund, all Abbas has is what outsiders give him. He is completely dependent on the Americans, the Israelis, the Europeans and the Gulf states. Without them, he would have nothing to buy people’s loyalty with.</p>
<p>If the money ever stops coming in, he’ll go broke and lose power immediately.</p>
<p>Militarily, if Israel ever stops lending military support to Abbas’s forces, it will be a matter of weeks, or perhaps days, before Abbas will be forced to surrender to Hamas.</p>
<p>And yet today Abbas is sitting pretty on the top of the volcano that is Arab politics, dictating terms for people with real power while playing mind-boggling radical politics.</p>
<p>And he’s winning big.</p>
<p>This has been a great year for Abbas. In exchange for agreeing to humor the Obama administration with “negotiations” consisting of rejecting pro-Palestinian American peace proposals while refusing face-to-face contact with Israel for nine months, he got the Americans to force Israel to release several dozen terrorist murderers from prison.</p>
<p>He then abandoned the negotiations and effectively ended the peace process when he signed onto 15 international agreements as “the president of Palestine,” seeking to gain international recognition for a Palestinian state that is in a de facto state of war with Israel.</p>
<p>From there he went on secure his own power at the helm of Palestinian politics by signing the unity deal with Hamas.</p>
<p>It’s a win-win deal for Abbas and the genocidal jihadist group.</p>
<p>The deal frees Hamas from the financial burden of governing Gaza. The slack will be made up by the PA’s US, European and Israeli-financed budget. Hamas will be able to go back to using all of its own funds to run its 20,000-man army and expand its already massive arsenal of missiles.</p>
<p>Just as important, it will be able to rebuild its military and political infrastructures in Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>Moreover, as a partner in the government, Hamas will have veto power over many of the Palestinian Authority’s governing decisions, so there will be no negotiations, no recognition, no cessation of terror assaults and no peace with Israel with this Palestinian government. Then again, none of these things was forthcoming with Abbas at the helm at any time.</p>
<p>As for Abbas, by signing the deal, he gets to deploy a ceremonial force to Gaza that will enable him to tell willfully credulous Americans that he is now in charge of Gaza, so they should feel comfortable giving him more taxpayer funds.</p>
<p>Abbas’s unity deal with Hamas renders the entire Palestinian Authority a terrorist organization. Modeled on Hezbollah’s deal with the Lebanese political leadership, the unity agreement formalizes the PLO’s role as Hamas’s protector and defender on the international scene. And it enables Hamas, as a member of the PA, to receive open assistance of every kind for its terrorist operations in Gaza and Judea and Samaria alike.</p>
<p>Since unlike Fatah, Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by Israel, the US, the EU, the unity deal makes it unlawful for any of them to continue to cooperate with, let alone support, the PA in any way.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t seem to matter.</p>
<p>The US and the EU raced to see which one would recognize the new government first, while pledging to continue funding the PA to the tune of nearly $2 billion per year.</p>
<p>In Israel, the Left, led by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, insists that Israel mustn’t cut off the PA, for doing so would end the peace process, which of course would be a disaster.</p>
<p>As for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the rest of his government, their non-rhetorical responses have been anemic.</p>
<p>So far the only financial steps the government has taken to curtail funding to the PA involves using some of the tax revenues Israel transmits to the PA to pay off some of the massive debt the Palestinians owe the Israel Electric Corporation. But Israel still turns over the remaining tax revenues to the PA. Israel remains the PA’s financial lifeline.</p>
<p>And this brings us back to Abbas.</p>
<p>Abbas is a successful politician because he knows what he wants and he is able to make the most of the cards he’s been dealt.</p>
<p>Abbas knows that his American, European and Israeli supporters are convinced they can’t make it without him. They don’t care that he is a radical. They will believe any lie – no matter how flimsy – to keep up the game of proclaiming him a moderate and a man of peace.</p>
<p>Abbas was certain that the same US, EU and Israeli Left that supported him through his demand to free terrorists, and to abrogate the property rights of Jews, the same forces that uphold him despite his rejection of Israel’s right to exist, his material breaches of the agreements he personally signed, and his general bad faith, would support his decision to join forces with Hamas.</p>
<p>The Israeli Left’s support for Abbas makes sense. Without Abbas it has no reason to exist. Without the myth that Israel has a Palestinian partner in peace, no one would give the likes of Livni the time of day. So she clings to him.</p>
<p>As for Netanyahu and his allies, their paralysis isn’t rooted in dependence on Abbas. They, like Israel would be far better off without him.</p>
<p>They are paralyzed by their fear of President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Netanyahu and his colleagues know that like Abbas, the Obama administration has no problem with Hamas. Obama was courting Hamas through his then-campaign adviser Robert Malley as early as the 2008 presidential election. Malley is now a senior director on Obama’s National Security Council. And according to media reports in the US, Obama’s representatives have been holding talks with Hamas for the past six months.</p>
<p>In her statement on the new Fatah-Hamas government, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki didn’t even pretend that the administration has a problem supporting the terror tag team. Psaki said that since Hamas terrorists are not serving as ministers in the “technocratic” government that serves at their pleasure, the US will continue funding it.</p>
<p>This leaves us with the US Congress.</p>
<p>Congress may cut off funding to the PA despite Israeli cowardice. Certainly, initial responses from Republican and Democratic leaders alike have signaled that US lawmakers intend to abide by the laws that they passed and end all US financing of the PA terror government.</p>
<p>But it is still early in the game.</p>
<p>Congress understands that voting to cut off aid to the PA places its members on a collision course with the administration.</p>
<p>That’s fine for Republicans. But for Democrats, choosing the law over Obama may be a bridge too far. Past attempts have all failed.</p>
<p>And this brings us back to our frightened leaders.</p>
<p>All of Abbas’s great accomplishments over the past year have harmed Israel. Israel is more isolated today than it has ever been.</p>
<p>And this isolation redounds in large part to Abbas’s ability to exploit the US’s addiction to him. His success not only in forming the government with Hamas, but in securing US and EU support for it, is the worst blow so far. Israel now finds itself weaker diplomatically not only than Abbas, but than a genocidal terrorist group run by Iran.</p>
<p>This simply cannot continue.</p>
<p>The fact is that Israel has gotten nothing from playing along with American coddling of Abbas. It receives less support from Obama every day. And its willingness to go along to get along has demoralized and angered the Republicans who oppose what Obama is doing. It has given cover to Democrats who are loath to oppose the White House.</p>
<p>The time has come for Israel to stop playing this game, where the PLO gets to materially breach its agreements and so render them effectively null and void, while Israel, the sucker, keeps upholding them.</p>
<p>The time has come for Israel to stop collecting tax revenues for the PA. All of the money Israel collects and transfers to the PA is now serving Hamas directly.</p>
<p>And it isn’t enough to keep collecting, but stop transferring the revenues. The monies always end up being transferred eventually.</p>
<p>The only way to end this is by actually ceasing to serve as the PA’s taxman.</p>
<p>Obama won’t like it. But what’s he going to do? Facilitate Iran’s nuclear weapons program? Blame Israel for Palestinian aggression against it? Recognize and fund Hamas? The only way to get off this train is to get off. And disembarking is also the only way to impact US behavior. No single act by Israel will do more to empower the US Congress to stop funding the Palestinians than that.</p>
<p>And once that happens, a virtuous circle is formed, where at a minimum, Abbas’s winning streak will end.</p>
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