Friday, August 8, 2008

Check your resources first

BBC Arabic published a report about the POWs swap operations between the Arab countries and Israel since the 1948. It should be interesting and of course as someone interested in the POWs issue in Egypt I decided to post it in the POWs website of course after checking the names and numbers. Already I felt there was wrong concerning the number of the Egyptian POWs in both 1967 and 1973 , in the report it is said that the number of the Egyptian POWs in 1973 were more than the Israeli POWs , of course it does not make sense at all. I checked from the report and I found out that it was taken completely from the Jewish Virtual Library which is based upon the IDF reports and numbers !!

Should not the BBC Arabic use other resources along with the Jewish Virtual library  before publishing this important historical report !!?? They have the resources to check the info before publishing it copy cat from the Jewish virtual library.

It is matter of Creditability. The IDF does not have a clean record in human rights and POWs treatment so it would post all the right numbers. On the other hand that the Arab world countries do not keep their records straight for fear the people’s public , till this day we do not know exactly the number of the civilians and military got killed in 1967 for sure not to mention those who were captured and killed.

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