A fascinating article in the Seattle P-I by Ruslan Tokhchukov who lives nearby in Redmond.
Tokhchukov summarizes: "One hundred years ago, 1 million Jews fled from Tsarist Russia to the United States after a wave of pogrom atrocities. Russia's loss was the United States' gain. The Russian Empire had violently collapsed in just a decade and the United States, which entered the 20th century as a third-rate power, emerged from it as the world's unchallenged superpower.
"Let's ponder the fate of all once-powerful enemies of the Jewish people: the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Inquisitor Spain, the Russian Tsarist Empire, the Nazi Reich. Did any one of them not suffer a brutal end?"
He points out that the Jews driven out of Spain and Portugal moved first to Holland. -- which became the greatest commercial nation of the 17th century, and then to England -- which became the greatest commercial nation in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Most of Tokhchukov's article concerns the idea that Islam has done a good job of driving out the Jews in the past 50 years and will probably suffer.