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Idag släpps en kritisk rapport om Sverige från NGO monitor angående hur svenska biståndspengar används i mellanöstern – A clouded EU presidency:

• On July 1, 2009, Sweden will assume the presidency of the European Union. This report shows that in order to have a positive impact on Arab-Israeli peace efforts, Sweden cannot continue to fund radical pro-Palestinian NGOs.
• Swedish government funding for NGO activities under the guise of human rights and humanitarian aid is biased, highly political, and the details are often hidden.
• Many NGOs receive significant Swedish support from multiple sources: directly from the SIDA aid agency, via NDC (Ramallah), and from Swedish “framework” NGOs. Some groups also receive funding from the EU’s European Commission.
• There is no evidence of a detailed study to determine whether this money given to NGOs has accomplished any of the stated objectives.
• Sweden funds Diakonia’s International Humanitarian Law project, which promotes Palestinian political goals through a distorted and misleading interpretation of international law.
• Sweden also funded Sabeel’s Nakba Memory program in 2008 “to commemorate the Nakba [Catastrophe] of 1948, examine the current struggles for freedom, equality, and identity, and confront the continuing problems of the 1948 refugees.”
• The Palme Center falsely accuses Israel of “provok[ing] the al-Aqsa rising and the ‘Second Intifada,’” and “disproportionate violence against civilians, unlawful executions and torture.” The fighting in Gaza is also blamed on “the provocative Israeli occupation.”
• Other SIDA grantees, including the Alternative Information Center (AIC), Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), and Jerusalem Center for Women (JWC), demonize Israel with the rhetoric of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “massacres.”

Your tax dollars at work, som amerikanerna säger.

Alliansen har gjort en del för att städa upp svenskt bistånd. Men frågan är om Carl Bildt och moderaterna verkligen vill ta tag i ovanståenden punkter.