A fact from Operation Rhodes appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 May 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that during Operation Rhodes of January 1970, Israeli paratroops held the Egyptian island of Shadwan for over a day before leaving with 62 prisoners of war?
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Latest comment: 3 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion
looks like a "Rambo" action to me. 3 dead for 70 dead and 63 POW. Wow...
Sources are from only one point of view — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.42.158.84 (talk) 13:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
lol, the article is also using references in Hebrew, absolutely disgusting bias, every Wiki article about Israel and Egypt always uses Israeli sources (Israeli historian Uri Milstein And Israeli author Shlomo Aloni are cited here) or pro-Israeli references (like US sources or American historians (mostly George W. Gawrych is cited here) but they never use an Egyptian source or a pro-Egyptian source (Soviet source for example) for the Egyptian claims, claiming the sources are biased! and if they do present such a source, they present another biased reference saying it counters these Egyptian or Soviet claims! or boldly accuse Egyptians of flat out lying like Gawrych is doing! Wasteland1 (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
I'm sorry to tell you, but Israeli and American sources are far more reliable than Egyptian ones (which are closer to propaganda than actual reports, specially back then). Mainstream Israeli sources are known to give accurate statistics when it comes to casualties, even when it's embarrassing for their own side. Every fallen Israeli soldier has a name and is mourned by the public. Egyptian sources often hide their own casualties and exaggerate the enemy's.--Watchlonly (talk) 09:59, 22 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
"Mainstream Israeli sources are known to give accurate statistics when it comes to casualties" oh yeah and how did you come to that conclusion? Every country hides their casualties and exaggerates the enemy's, or claims their losses were due to an "accident" rather than hostile action (such as the US in Afghanistan and Iraq), and not every soldier has a name, some are never even found or known. But here you are claiming Israel is the god of truth! and everyone else is lying! just by looking at this article you can see the blatant bias and lies, 3 dead vs 70 dead, if they were fighting babies with pistols they would have suffered higher casualties lmao, this is so disgusting.Wasteland1 (talk) 19:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
