Barely 24 hours had passed since Monday?s Palestinian suicide attack murdered 5 Israelis in Netanya, but that didn?t stop a leading left-wing figure from calling for further surrender to the terrorists.

Speaking to a group of students, former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, who is running in the Labor Party primaries, called for the uprooting of all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that lie beyond the security fence currently being constructed by Israel. Moreover, he asserted, it is ?immoral? for Israeli soldiers to be defending these areas since they will be handed over to the Palestinians anyway.

It is hard to decide what is more troubling about these comments ? their timing, their content or the person who said them....

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Michael Freund served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu. He is Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel (www.shavei.org), which reaches out and assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people.