In Jeremiah 31, God promises - "For the LORD will ransom Jacob (Israel) and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they." God made good on that promise when Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon and allowed the exiles to return to Israel and Jerusalem. Subsequent rulers even paid for the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem and supported the rebuilding of the Temple.
All of the ancient civilizations around Israel has faded and its peoples have disappeared as nations (Moab, Edom, Phillistia, etc.), but the Jews remain as a people and rebuilt on the land. There is no ancient nation that has been dispossessed of its land and can make that claim. God has promised throughout the Bible that He would keep a remnant of Jews always - and He has. The survival of the Jewish people is a reason that the Bible is true and is a recording of the very words of God Himself.
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