{"id":1772448,"date":"2022-12-12T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772448"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:33:39","slug":"chris-murphy-snubs-israel-calls-qatar-the-best-partner-in-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-murphy-snubs-israel-calls-qatar-the-best-partner-in-region-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Murphy Snubs Israel, Calls Qatar the \u2018Best Partner in Region\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-murphy-snubs-israel-calls-qatar-the-best-partner-in-region-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a snub to Israel, Democratic senator Chris Murphy (Conn.) described Qatar\u2014the small oil-rich country allied with Iran\u2014as the United States\u2019 &#8220;best partner in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshkraushaar\/status\/1601759134252421120?s=46&#038;t=74VstJjh5VlAGceoaAGyFQ\">said<\/a> in a recent interview, is &#8220;an imperfect partner. There&#8217;s a lot not to like about Qatari policy. But in many ways, they are our best partner in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s remarks came after he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ilhan-omar-chris-murphy-world-cup-qatar-human-rights-lgbtq-2022-12\">traveled<\/a>\u00a0to Doha to attend the 2022 World Cup, which was hosted by Qatar after it bribed the FIFA soccer association and built its sports infrastructure using slave labor. Qatar is a well-documented human rights abuser and enjoys close relations with Iran, the world\u2019s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Qatar itself is also a major hub for terrorism financing, money that empowers regional militant groups that target U.S. assets and allies in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u2019s remarks raised eyebrows with regional observers who questioned why a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would go out of his way to diminish the United States\u2019 historically close ties with Israel, which is widely viewed as the country\u2019s closest and most reliable regional partner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why the congressman omitted Israel from his statement is anyone\u2019s guess,&#8221; said Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department and veteran Middle East analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t need a partner in the region that finances terrorism, bribes World Cup officials, and violates human rights on a scale rarely seen,&#8221; Schanzer said. &#8220;As it turns out, we already have a reliable partner in the region that is a democracy. It\u2019s a highly competent military power with cyber and intelligence capabilities that rival many Western nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a snub to Israel, Democratic senator Chris Murphy (Conn.) described Qatar\u2014the small oil-rich country allied with Iran\u2014as the United States\u2019 \u201cbest partner in the region.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post Chris Murphy Snubs Israel, Calls Qatar the \u2018Best Partner in Region\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1772456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,5078,3755,4270,4671,8138,8140,7823,8139,8137],"class_list":["post-1772448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-best","tag-calls","tag-chris","tag-israel","tag-murphy","tag-partner","tag-qatar","tag-region","tag-snubs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}