The elections may still be three weeks away, but that hasn?t stopped Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from agreeing to make yet more concessions to the Palestinians.

Avi Dichter, a former head of Israel?s General Security Service who is now running for the Knesset in Olmert?s Kadima party, confirmed media reports that Olmert is planning a major unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria after the March balloting.

In effect, Olmert is giving Hamas a choice: either negotiate with us or else we will have to give you even more territory from which to attack us....

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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.