Miraculous Survival of the Jewish People

This is another informal proof to the divinity of the Jewish people.

Claim

The historical survival of the Jewish people can only be explained by divine intervention. Nations under the following conditions:

• Persecuted
• Spread across the world
• Exiled from their home land

are expected to die out. How did the Jewish people survive under these fatal conditions?

Counter-Argument

There are three ways to counter this argument:

• Ignorance fallacy
• Proposed alternative mechanisms of survival
• Counter-examples

Ignorance fallacy

Effectively, the claim poses an unexplained scenario along with a hypothesis and suggests that if no explanation is given, the hypothesis is correct. This fallacy is sufficient to dismiss the claim. 

On a related note, I have not come across anyone who pushes the claim with examples of nations/religions that did fail under stated conditions. Without establishing a trend or bringing evidence, the claim is suggesting that these conditions are fatal with nothing but an appeal to common sense. It may very well be that these are not fatal conditions, which is lightly explored in the next section.

Alternative mechanisms

The conditions of persecution, world-wide spread and exile from homeland are initially thought of as only survivable through divine intervention. The following are proposed mechanisms of survival. I am not seeking to prove these mechanism, but rather only suggest them. Once suggested, they are on equal footing as the claim, which does not prove a divine mechanism of survival, but rather suggests a divine mechanism.

• Persecution can have a ghetto effect, where the persecuted people bands together and resists assimilation into its greater culture.
• Peoples spread about the world are intuitively more resistant to dying out as an effort to eliminate them would require each part of the people's global community to be simultaneously eliminated.
• Exiled people are better able to survive in foreign communities as they always have a poignant unifying goal of returning to their home land.

Counter-examples

There are a couple of counter-examples which seem to me to be relevant here (Zoroastrians, Armenians, Samaritans), but for now I am only researching the Romani people (also known as Gypsies). 

I am heavily ripping from Wikipedia:

The Romani's people are believed to have originated from the Indian subcontinent, migrating around 1000 CE and arriving in Europe around 13th to 14th century. I believe this people qualifies as similar to the Jewish people with regards to the conditions of the claim:

• Persecuted
• Spread across the world

Although they do not apparently have a homeland from which they are exiled. Even given these conditions, they still number in the 2–12 million population worldwide. If the claim's logic is sound, then the Romani people must also be divinely protected in the same way that the Jewish people are supposedly. Alternatively, the claims logic is not sound, and the proposed conditions do not require a miracle to survive.

Spread across the world

As of 2015, 4.6 million people speak a dialect of Romani worldwide. Romani populations exists on all populated continents.

Persecution

• "Persecution against the Romani has led to many of the cultural practices being extinguished, hidden or modified to survive in a country that has excluded them ethnically and culturally. The very common carnivals throughout Brazil are one of the few spaces in which the Romani can still express their cultural traditions, including the so-called "carnival wedding" in which a boy is disguised as a bride and the famous "Romaní dance", picturesquely simulated with the women of the town parading in their traditional attire."  (Wikipedia)
• The Nazi's included the Romanis in the same Holocaust as the Jews 
• Forced assimilation in Austria, Spain and Norway (Wikipedia) 

If there is any desire for more research into this claim, let me know what you want me to look into.