They don't commonly use that phrase here. I have lived in Europe for decades, read European newspapers in several languages for ages (back in the days of print media and then on the internet), and have interacted with European society on a daily basis.
It is bona fide zionist terminology. People using it are usually zionist activists dedicated to the cause. And that terminology itself was devised by zionists in reference to Jewish cultural elements, namely the slogan "Am Yisrael Chai" ("The people of Israel live") as well as the Chai symbol.
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I kind of do I must confess, given that I'm of anti-zionist persuasion and that to me, the neo-colonial occupation regime in Palestine is not politically legitimate.
But you skipped the main issue highlighted in my post. We've seen you open a thread presenting the ancient wars between Iran and Greece as stemming from Iranian incapacity to grasp what you deem to be fundamental cultural incompatibility between the two sides.
Then here in this thread, responding to user QWECXS's comment on potential future negotiations surrounding Iran's present day nuclear program, you made quite a sweeping trans-historical generalization about Iran, suggesting that it "always" ends up on the losing side because of some behavioural trait you appear to ascribe to Iranians.
When user Muhammed45 called into question your proposals with regards to the same nuclear dossier, asking on what grounds you formulate guidelines for Iran, you moved the discussion onto the cultural level again, implying once more the schematic dichotomy "Greece = Europe = freedom & democracy" vs "Iran = Asia = paternalism & tyranny". Granted, Muhammed45's post constituted an ad hominem, but instead of directing your response at him personally, you chose to land another jab at Iranian and Oriental culture ("in our culture we can say our opinion" was your reaction; notwithstanding the fact that Islamic Iran is in fact more democratic than secular liberal so-called democracies of the west, but that's another topic for another day). Which was pretty unwarranted in this particular case, since Muhammed45's contribution you were responding to did not venture into this area at all.
Let's not mention certain other debatable semantic choices ("Iran is
meaningless in the grand scheme of things").
So that's quite the pent up antagonism exhibited against Iran on a purported historical and civilizational premise. And what for, if one may ask? Wars which occurred 2500 years ago? Or could it be that some other factor is at play here, such as pro-active leaning towards zionism, for example...?
Especially since at the same time, a historical clash occurring some 300 years later (i.e. closer to us) and opposing not Iranian but Jewish people to Greeks, does not seem to be worthy of mention to you. Hence my humble if somewhat ironic invitation to include a few indirect little pokes and nudges at Jewish culture when speaking of Isra"el", just for the sake of equity seeing that this is how you would proceed vis a vis Iran, is it not? Opening a thread on how come that Jews thought they could take on an ancient Greek-ruled empire, expounding on the fascinating episode of Hannukah, and viewing Isra"el"i policy through a cultural-determinist lense would be other symmetrical undertakings you may perhaps want to engage in.
Or is there some marked ideological-type of allegiance to zionism behind the apparent double standard, after all?
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It's that the contemporary regime calling itself Isra"el" is seen as a holy entity under divine protection by adherents of certain ideological, religious and esoterist currents - zionism, freemasonry, globalist messianism, Christian zionism etc. So to them, Isra"el"'s intangible status until the establishment of the Third Temple and the day of Armageddon is viewed as factual and leaves no room for discussion.