Last night, I received the endorsement of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, a wonderful, lively club. The club also endorsed Mark Green for attorney general and Eliot Spitzer for governor.

Lasy night was my second visit to the club. During both visits, I was asked about my position about the Israel-Palestinian conflict. So, let me be as clear as I can be about my position(and you can check out the full position in our issues section):

My father was born in Palestine and fought in the Israeli underground. I lived in Israel for seven years, during which I was involved, as a teen-ager and young man, in the fledgling peace movement. I went through the 1973 Yom Kippur war—a cousin was killed in the war and his brother was wounded. Half my family lives there now, some within a few miles of the occupied territories.

So, it is absolutely clear to me that only a two-state solution will end the violence that has taken so many Palestinian and Israeli lives—and bring stability and peace to the Middle East.

I unequivocally support the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip, consequently ending Israeli occupation of these areas because such a solution is the only way to ensure Israeli security. The final peace settlement has to accommodate Israel’s security requirements but it also has to ensure a viable, thriving, independent Palestinian State which has territorial contiguity and is not broken into cantons.

Hillary Clinton supports the "security wall" in its current position--even though it has been found to violate international law AND Israeli law.