Despite the severe limitations on their actions placed by the Israel lobby, successive US presidents have made attempts to initiate policies that would give some justice to the Palestinian cause and promote peace in the region – only to be thwarted by obdurate Israeli politicians backed by their powerful supporters in the US. For instance, in the context of horrendous Israeli violence in Lebanon in 1982, President Ronald Reagan proposed his ‘Reagan Plan’ in September 1982 in which he spoke of the Palestinians’ ‘legitimate rights’ and Israel’s ‘legitimate security concerns’. In this plan, he
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