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As the conflict claims more lives, the words U.S. officials use are telling.
A Palestinian protester uses a sling shot to hurls back a tear gas canister during clashes with Israeli troops south of the West Bank city of Nablus on May 17. | Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo
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The Biden administration would like Israelis and Palestinians to “calm” down. Ideally, a “sustainable calm” that comes because the two sides “deescalate tensions” and bring a “halt to the violence.”
In speeches, interviews, tweets and call readouts, President Joe Biden and his aides have used some version of the above terms more than 40 times during the past week.