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proportionality and precaution. although the us vetoed the vote. the us secretary of state antony blinken says there is a gap between israel s promise to protect civilians and its actions on the ground. more than 17,000 palestinians have now been killed according to the hamas run health ministry. and while israel claims that some 5,000 of that number are hamas fighters, there are huge numbers of women and children among the dead. frank lowenstein, who was formerly president obama s special envoy for middle east peace, says the numbers are concerning. he told me why the united states is not going to vote for a cease fire. because in the minds of the united states and the biden administration, there s two very different questions here. the first is, should there be a cease fire that effectively allows hamas to stay in place? and we ve been very clear that we oppose that. at the same time, we really have been pushing the israelis as hard as we can to get them to allow more hu ....