At the same time Beyazid II, the eighth sultan of the…

“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have…

— Yair Lapid

“During the Second World War 70,000 Jews were murdered in Latvia, 30,000 of them by summer 1941. In Lithuania, almost all of the country’s…

— Geert Mak

“By 1914, approximately 85,000 Jews resided in Palestine, of whom about 35,000 had arrived in recent decades.”

— Martin Bunton

“On the very day that Columbus finally set forth on his journey that would shake the world, the port of the city he sailed…

— David E. Stannard

“Vichy officials and collaborationists imprisoned 135,000 people (many for little more than their political beliefs), sent 650,000 more to Germany as “guest workers” under…

— Michael Neiberg

“The process is taking place before our eyes and is already far advanced.” Under present trends, “the number of Jews in Europe by the…

— Charles Krauthammer

“At the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was often described as a dwindling power, mired by administrative corruption, using inferior technology,…

— Charles River Editors

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia,…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Across the city, people quoted a prophecy the Arabs used to tell to glorify the Ottoman Empire: the Turks would leave Palestine only when…

— Tom Segev

“There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave…

— Helen Grant Ross

The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly…

— Noam Chomsky

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than…

— Charles C. Mann

“The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“For the first time, the Ottoman Empire was forced to recognize the full independence of a nation, not because of a war with a…

— Charles River Editors