Why are they calling it a prisoner swap when one side only has two dead bodies?

Question

Why are they calling it a prisoner swap when one side only has two dead bodies?

Answer 1

To the Muslims there is no real difference between a dead Jew and a live one. And to the Jews even a dead Jew is worth more than a live Muslim.

Answer 2

It's seen as a gesture of goodwill...

Answer 3

calling it a dead body swap would be bad PR.

Answer 4

I guess Israel is kinda like the US in how we never leave a man behind dead or alive.

Answer 5

It is obvious who has come out on the winning side in this particular prisoner exchange!It is not Israel!!

Answer 6

I'm trying to figure out how two live Israeli soldiers are taken captive and two years later they come back in wooden boxes - and no comment on this strange turn of circumstances by the media.

How does "executed by a terrorist organisation" sound??- or is that not PC enough.

Answer 7

I just saw this story on the news and wondered the same thing..

to be crass.. a "Two for one sale'?

Answer 8

Middle east politics (or what passes for them).