The Jews control the world

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/another_fascinating_letter.php

Dear Jeffrey,

In the classic sefer "Nefesh HaChaim", Rav Chaim of Volozhin explains that when Jews fulfill their halachic obligations or commit transgressions, it has powerful effects in the upper worlds that filter down into our world. Classic Jewish belief is that we do control the world, albeit through our good deeds and, G-d forbid, the opposite. I personally believe that this knowledge is in the unconscious of every single human being. Therefore, it does not surprise me that there are people whose experience of the world leads them to claim that the Jews control the world.

Jeffrey, when you look at Jewish history, the survival of the Jewish people for over 3,500 years, the fact that both Christianity and Islam built themselves on a Jewish foundation...how do you account for this?