Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and former Al Jazeera Director General from 2003 to 2011.

Gaza has been described as a graveyard of children. But it also represents a graveyard of the liberal world order. The very values that undergird this so-called rules-based system have been revealed for what they really are — a set of norms created to preserve the interests of the West. Their unrepentant support for the worst crimes of Israel, the brutality of indiscriminate bombings, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, the carpet bombings of entire neighbourhoods, and the use of the most wicked weaponry – without even the slightest murmur from Western capitals have consolidated a new consciousness. Violence has never been absent under the auspices of this order. Instead, the system was created to safeguard these perpetrators from prosecution. Like the rotten empires of old, as their failures domestically and internationally mount, so too does the duplicity with which they act. This is not an abdication of liberalism; this is, in fact, consistent with the very programme this ideology has to offer. Our guest today argues that in many ways, this is a coming of age for many, including much of what is called the ‘Global South’.

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The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 123


Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:48 Western Crimes in Gaza
10:45 Exaggeration of US downfall?
16:20 Dictators and Authoritarians
19:30 Imagined communities and Caliphates?
24:10 Muslim leaders
27:50 The EU and Unity
32:30 Israel and US Power
38:20 Media Narrative
43:01 Leading the Global South
48:00 China’s Rise
51:01 Uyghurs
54:01 Al Jazeera
57:40 Citizen Journalism
1:00:31 Arab Spring Over?
1:03:00 Is this a period of hope?