[cup]

Probably would have been a lot more Jews alive in Europe for starters.

Edit: People seem to be unhappy with this comment. Rather than vote on it, why not comment on it.

[jmspring]

You should have justification.

Looking at Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ott..., it seems like Jews were at the whim of the Sultan, but during the "classic" Ottoman Empire (1300-1600s), tended to prosper.

There may be counters to this, but first couple of sources I looked at indicate your initial comment either needs backing or is incorrect.

[vessenes]

Arab-Jew conflict like we have today is a relatively modern thing, starting around the turn of the 19th century and intensifying during WW2 for a variety of reasons, including oil politics for Hitler and increasing land / nationalism tensions.

An interesting book about this and Iraq in specific is Banking on Baghdad; published in 2008, it's aimed at an interested Western reader, and is a good read.

[smcl]

Thanks for this reccomendation, it's in my queue now :)

[_nedR]

Probably the lot of Jews under Christian Europe at the time was not much better (maybe even worse) than under the Ottomans.

[ZanyProgrammer]

Why not justify it?