Reply #5: Indeed, Ma'am [View All]

[The Magistrate]

This seems to me something of a tempest in a teapot.

The Peters work, and the Finkelstein critique of it, are unfamiliar to me, but just going on what is referenced in the chart provided, there do not seem to be any glaring innaccuracies in the facts cited. It is not possible, of course, to check the details of the account of Ottoman justice, but no particular reason to doubt it, or to doubt the word of various travelers as to what they saw.

If Mr. Dershowitz had researchers check the citations in the Peters work, as he probably did, there does not seem to me any reason he should not then cite the origionals.