Modern day biographers like Niall Ferguson, as well as establishment academics like Carroll Quigley, attempt to make the case that the Rothschilds were a "force for peace".
I am interested in the contributions of other posters, provided that they give solid, verifiable citations.
This isn't about other Jewish bankers. This is just about direct Rothschild involvement in instigating wars.
I can find a quote by William Jennings Bryan on the Rothschilds, but it is on the money question: http://books.google.com/books?id=-hU39f ... ds&f=false (http://books.google.com/books?id=-hU39f_4BUoC&pg=PA581&dq=Our+opponents+have+sometimes+tried+to+make+it+appear+that+we+were+attacking+a+race+when+we+denounced+the+financial+policy+of+the+Rothschilds&hl=en&ei=0n9wTcaqA5S5tgeJm9CCDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Our%20opponents%20have%20sometimes%20tried%20to%20make%20it%20appear%20that%20we%20were%20attacking%20a%20race%20when%20we%20denounced%20the%20financial%20policy%20of%20the%20Rothschilds&f=false)