You might think you are seeing Golda talking about today. Different foes - same tactics. Israel held thousands of Arabs prisoner, but the Egyptians and Syrians held negotiations as if they had won the war.
“The situation is such that we haven’t even received a list of the prisoners of war against all international conventions.
We have thousands of prisoners of war and we are giving them lists through the Red Cross constantly. We are treating the wounded. The Red Cross can visit the Egyptian or Syrian wounded soldiers, and they do.
We did not receive a list of our prisoners of war. To this day the Red Cross was not allowed until this minute to visit our wounded men in either Syria or in Egypt.
And certainly they have not returned, released the wounded people as it is they’re supposed to do according to the Geneva Convention.”
Face The Nation. October 1973.