Netanyahu says Mahmoud Abbas can’t form a unity government with Hamas and expect Israel to be at the negotiating table:
THE HILL – The Israeli government voted Thursday to freeze talks with the Palestinians, dealing a potentially fatal blow to Secretary of State John Kerry’s hopes to broker a framework peace deal.
According to The Associated Press, Israel’s Security Cabinet voted unanimously to cut off contact during a five-hour meeting.
The vote was a response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s announcement Wednesday that he would move to form a unity government with Hamas. The reconciliation drew protests from both the U.S. and Israel, who consider the Gaza-based organization a terrorist group.
Here’s an interview with Netanyahu from MSNBC a short time ago: