"Jerusalem is not a settlement.. it is our capital."<br /><br />These defiant words came from Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, as he addressed a conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington DC on Monday.<br /><br />His remarks came hours after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, called on Israel to halt all settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territory.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports from Washington. <br /><br />[March 23, 2010]
