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earlier this week, the top us diplomat, antony blinken, left the region without a breakthrough, after israel rejected hamas demands for a ceasefire. gideon levy is an israeli author and columnist for the haaretz newspaper. i asked him if the us concerns would make much of a difference to benjamin netanyahu s plans. no, as long as the us remarks are only remarks or concerns from the us and they are not followed by practical measures, israel will ignore it. in any case, israel learned to ignore advice. if the us wants to prevent the next catastrophe, and rafah is going to be a major catastrophe, the us has got to be precise and take measures, otherwise it will not work. so when i read out the latest line from netanyahu ordering the military to plan ways to evacuate civilians in rafah so he can carry out the intention to target hamas, what do you make of that? is thatjust words, is that to deflect the criticism that is already coming his way? i want to ask you, where to? the peo