Still, at the time, Power had no idea what was coming. “She’ll make the case that the world could be a very different place ,” he added. “ will say that you can make the case that without the Syria tragedy and the outflow of refugees, you may well not have had Brexit in the UK, you may well not have had Trump without this fear of ‘The Other’ which was perpetrated by a million refugees flowing into Europe,” Barker said. (Robert Atanasovski/AFP)īarker said that Power now believes that the Obama administration’s failure to take definitive action in Syria prompted a domino-effect of world events. Migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija on February 23, 2016. It’s very hard to convey enough expositions that people can understand what’s going on and with the Syria ‘tick-tock.'” “As a filmmaker,” he said, “You have to make a choice about where the narrative focus is in a documentary that’s really made for a general audience. But by the last year they were not expecting any breakthrough in regards to Israel and the film reflects that.” One country that is not mentioned in regards to Syria or at all in the film, is Israel.Īccording to Barker, “Had we made the film a few years earlier when Kerry was doing his thing and trying to make some sort of a settlement, that would have been obviously at the core of it.
The encounter is largely symbolic of Power’s continued attempt to move her own government and the rest of the world to act on Syria. “Seriously, if you do nothing else I ever ask you to do, just do this,” Power pleads. (Manuel Elias/The United Nations via AP)Īt one point in the film, Power breathlessly corners the Saudi ambassador on the street to convince him to check out a UN exhibit featuring a virtual reality tour of a Syrian refugee camp.
Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council, after the council voted on condemning Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Friday, December 23, 2016.
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