‘zionists control US political apparatus’: Ex-US presidential candidate

The US government’s support for Israel in the massacre of Palestinians is another example of the influence of Israel lobby in the United States, where “Zionists control the political apparatus in Washington, D.C.,” a former US presidential candidate says.

Since July 8, Israeli warplanes have struck more than 1,300 targets across Gaza, which is home to around 1.7 million Palestinians. According to latest figures, released by the Palestinian Health Ministry, the strikes have so far claimed the lives of 220 with more than 1,600 others injured.

Hamas rejected an Egyptian-proposed Gaza ceasefire with Israel on Wednesday, saying they had only found about it through the media and was angry that it did not deal with some of the group’s major demands, including a conclusive end of Israel and Egypt’s blockade on Gaza, and the release of certain prisoners from Israeli jails.

“The current assault on Gaza and a request for a ceasefire, it seems to always be on Israel’s terms,” said Merlin Lloyd Miller, and independent film director, writer, and producer who was the 2012 US presidential nominee of the American Third Position Party.

“Here you have an occupied people, living in an open-air concentration camp that can’t really viably defend themselves, being attacked like this and with thousands of casualties. It’s just insane why the international bodies are not condemning this,” Miller told Press TV on Wednesday.

“It’s irresponsible that our government is not initiating some action to condemn Tel Aviv for their actions and to stop this bombardment,” he added.

“The reason goes back to what has happened to America over the last several decades, and that is Zionists control the political apparatus in Washington D.C. Our politician, for the most part, are indebted or in some way controlled by these special interest groups that work for the Zionist interest.”