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A row over the new Palestinian government is driving yet another wedge into already shaky ties between the Zionist entity and the US as the once sacrosanct relationship comes under severe strain, analysts say.

Barely had the State Department said it would work with the new "interim technocratic government," just hours after it was sworn in Monday by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, when "Israeli" rage roared across from the Levant.

In what has become a predictable pattern of angry invective in recent weeks, the "Israeli" government said it was "deeply disappointed" by the US decision, which means aid will also keep flowing to the Palestinian Authority [PA].

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was feeling "betrayed and deceived," "Israeli" public radio said, as Secretary of State John Kerry had promised him Washington would not recognize the new Palestinian government right away.

Another "Israeli" official was quoted by the "Israel Hayom" daily as saying it was "like a knife in the back."

But one "Israeli" commentator writing in Haaretz daily claimed "the "Israeli" cabinet had merely rushed into "a sophisticated trap" laid by Abbas in the hopes of driving "Israel" and the US further apart, and should have just waited to see what happened as Palestinian elections loom."

Ties between the two allies have frayed under the administration of Barack Obama.

The "Israelis" were deeply angered when media reports quoting an unnamed US official - widely believed to be chief US negotiator Martin Indyk - laid the blame for the failure of Kerry's so-called "peace" quest squarely at "Israel".

State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf sought to temper the angry reaction Tuesday, saying "the United States and "Israel" have a long, historic and unshakable friendship, period, over many, many decades, over many administrations, through a lot of difficult times."

And she repeatedly stressed that Washington's position on Hamas has not changed.

"The United States does not and will not provide it assistance per long-standing US policy," she told reporters.

"We do not have any contact with Hamas. No members of Hamas and no ministers affiliated with Hamas, as I said, are part of this government."

In a sign of a possible new internal US fight, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said: "They're making a mistake... I'm very disappointed with the administration's position on this."

"I think we should follow the law and cut off aid. The law is pretty clear: they don't recognize "Israel", they shouldn't be receiving US aid."

Democratic Representative Eliot Engel agreed, saying: "The United States is under no obligation to give a dime to the PA as it reconciles with a known "terrorist" group."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team