Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his lack of confidence in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as a peace partner on Thursday. Abbas met with Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in Cairo on Thursday as part of a reconciliation effort between Abbas' Fatah and Hamas, mediated by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

"Abbas embraces the head of a terrorist organization that declared just one month ago that Israel needs to be wiped off the map," Netanyahu said. "That is not how someone with their eyes toward peace behaves."