> A friend of mine (who is Jewish and pro-Israel, although in as
> moderate a way as I think one could possibly be) visited a West Bank
> settlement a few years ago, to see a friend of hers who was staying
> with relatives there. She calls it "America Lite" and says that over
> half its population is from North America.
>
I'm not going to reiterate the similarity to what some of the US foreign policy makers(specifically, but not exclusively neo-fas... cons), would love to happen in Iraq...
Replace the indigenous Iraqis with a new improved westernized variant.
It's not genocide/ethnocide if you leave the ethnicity intact and only obliterate the historic/traditional culture and social structures... Right?
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/ethnocide.htm
Leigh www.leighm.net