My commentary: In my opinion, this is one of the thorniest issues regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel can have the settlements or it can have a democracy; it cannot have both.

2000-member American rabbi group backs Obama on complete settlement freeze, and you can too!

Today, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which represents nearly 2,000 Reform rabbis, including a significant percentage of Brit Tzedek supporters, issued a statement in support of President Obama's call for a complete freeze on settlements; this includes natural growth, as "in the best interest of the United States, of the State of Israel, and of peace." Read statement.

The largest U.S. rabbinical association is backing President Obama's Middle East leadership. Will you? Please sign "We've Got Your Back, Mr. President" today.

To help you better understand natural growth-related issues, we developed the FAQ appended below. You can download it here.

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