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Echoing Israel lobby criticism of the United Nations Human Rights Council's plans to investigate Protective Edge, Power declared towards the final stage of assault on Gaza that the council "has shown itself incapable of engaging constructively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." More recently, Power was credited with persuading members of the UN Security Council to block a resolution calling for an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 armistice lines -- to essentially shield the occupation of the West Bank from international law.
If her appearance in "Watchers of the Sky" is any indication, Power has yet to reckon with the consequences of her role in enabling some of the worst atrocities ever committed against one of the world's longest-suffering populations. It is as if the more than 500 children killed in Gaza this summer never existed; as though they were ghosts.
Towards the end of the documentary, after nearly two hours of heart-rending footage of atrocities from Auschwitz to Rwanda to Darfur (genocides committed by US allies are never mentioned), Power begins to tear up, just as she did in her fateful appearance before the pro-Israel lobby.
"I always think about the privilege of getting to try," she says. "Just to try."
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