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Funding Israel's Detractors
[Wall Street Journal Europe] Gerald M. Steinberg - Some of the recent friction between Israel and Europe results from EU funding for anti-Israel "civil society organizations." While supposedly promoting peace and coexistence, these groups often preach division and confrontation - taking every Palestinian complaint at face value and writing inflammable reports castigating Israel as the aggressor. The EU was also one of the main funders of the infamous NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban conference.