A question prompted by the post below:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

How is Israel in the West Bank different in any way from the Soviet policy back in the Soviet era of settling Russians in non-Russophone territory or the Chinese Sinicizations of Tibet and Uighurstan? 

It's a simple question, which will no doubt product convoluted and complex answers.
 

Comments

[thies.livejournal.com]

if they disagree and thus think they live in the USSR or China while definitely not being there I'd call them stupid

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

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[thies.livejournal.com]

!!!

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The oppression is certainly little different. And Zionists tended in the past to have some degree of blend-over with socialism, yet the original settlers were at first Charedim.

[thies.livejournal.com]

well, thanks for listing a few more differences in your comment just now