Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon stated in an interview with the London-founded Asharq-Alawsat Arabic newspaper that he thinks Israel should relinquish certain Arab populated areas of Judea and Samaria for a future Palestinian Say, yet that Israel need not forcibly evict Jewish citizens of Judea and Samaria.

“I think the claim that the settlements are an obstacle to peace is exaggerated,” he said, citing the examples of the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip and the 1982 Disengagement from Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula.

Ayalon further said he wouldn't be completely against the children and grandchildren of Arabs who fled their homes in pre-State Israel being allowed to reclaim their territory within Israel.

He commented that Israel's denial of this " correct to return" was just a unrealistic as the Arab demand to freeze all construction of Jewish populations in Judea and Samaria.