The history of the world as a history of Jewish persecution. Draiman

The history of the world as a history of Jewish persecution.

After the 1492 Holocaust in Spain, Jews moved to Eastern Europe where they made fortunes colonizing new lands, fortunes that allowed them to expand their business all over Europe. After the 1648 Holocaust in Poland, Britain removed the ban against the Jews and allowed them to emigrate to the USA, an event that (centuries later) gave them an evolutionary advantage. After the 1881 and 1906 Holocausts in Russia, the Jews started emigrating to the Ottoman vilayet of Saida by the many thousands, founding cities (Tel Aviv) and buying land at high prices. After the 1945 Nazi Holocaust in Germany which exterminated over 6 million Jews, the Jews declared the sovereign state of Israel while the British gave notice to the UN that they are abandoning their responsibility as the trustee for the Mandate of Palestine, that was a piece of the old Ottoman vilayet of Saida (The name "Palestine" never existed under the Arabs or the Ottomans as a separate entity). 
In each case the enemies of the Jews got a short-term victory (a big one), but the Jews won long-term. Basically one has to blame the other people's stupidity (and, of course, cruelty) more than one can credit Jewish cleverness. Jewish people can be credited for surviving and never giving up, but the rest was really a reaction to the actions of their persecutors. Jews lived pretty much the only history that was possible for them given the way they were treated by the hosting country. 
The question is whether this process is still underway today in the only place where they are still persecuted: the Middle East. 
One can easily argue that the actions of their Arab enemies have made Israel stronger. If the Arab states had not made a big deal of it, Israel would have remained a small Jewish state with real independence (as it was not intended in 1937) and eventually joined into with some international federation. By swearing to destroy Israel, the Arabs forced it to defend itself from extinction and become a defensive militaristic power. By the Arabs allying with the Soviet Union, they forced the USA to ally with Israel. By inventing Fictitious Arab Palestinian nationalism (that had never existed in history), they turned Israel into a right-wing country. The whole transformation of Israel from a poor socialist utopia to what it is today was caused by the actions of the Arabs. 
The Jewish factor also works the other way around, as it seems to determine the fortunes of the countries where they live or where they are expelled from. 
One thing you notice while reading the history of the Jewish people is how the superpower was almost always the country that had the largest population of Jews (Romans, Arabs, Ottomans) or that had the lowest discrimination against them (Britain, USA). The countries that persecuted them and eventually had small numbers of them (Spain, France, Italy) are the ones that declined rapidly. Coincidence or not, the decline of Islamic civilization parallels the forced exodus of Jews out of the Islamic world. Countries such as Poland and Ukraine and Russia itself became regional powers after the influx of Jews expelled from Spain, Italy and France in the 16th century. Germany's peak was between 1881 and 1914, when they had the largest Jewish community in Europe and the best integrated. For a while (before the re-creation of Israel) the USA held both records (largest community in the world and lowest discrimination). Second after the USA was the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union happened one decade after the mass exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel. 
Today the most unfriendly lands for Jews are the Islamic lands.