The United States is “kind of perplexed” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to the US decision not to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire on Monday. Netanyahu cancelled a scheduled Israeli delegation’s trip to Washington over the decision. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called the move “a bit surprising and unfortunate.” But Miller said that the US still expects to present Israeli officials with alternatives to a planned military attack against the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Almost six months into the Gaza war, th…