DOHA, Dec 11: Qatar has broken with regional tradition by openly criticising its Gulf Arab partners, the United States and the United Nations, and by dropping any pretense that ties are completely harmonious. reports AFP.

Qatar staged on unprecedented boycott of Wednesday’s Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Muscat to protest how a Saudi was named the new GCC secretary general and on Saturday vowed to boycott future OCC meetings If he stayed on.

Doha also blasted Arab countries' stand toward Israel mid complained that the West was using the Gulf states for their money.

Foreign Minister Hamd Ibn Jassem Ibn Jabr Al-Thani on Saturday defended the decision to allow the US firm En-

ron to sign a letter of intent to ship Qatari gas to Israel — a move which diplomats said sparked Saudi disapproval.

"We have lost every war with Israel.” he said. "Let s speak frankly. If we don't sell this gas. Israel will have no problem getting it elsewhere, and it s Qatar, an Arab country, that will lose the contract.”

"We the Arabs are used to shipping oil to Rotterdam which was then delivered to Israel for two dollars more per barrel." he said during a three-hour press conference.

"We could have sold the oil directly to Israel for two dollars more per barrel and pocketed billions of dollars which would have been used In the battle against the Zionist enemy." he said.