While at a Manhattan flea market, antique dealer Robert Swope discovered a collection of intimate snap shots of cross-dressers from the 1950's and 60's. Moved by the mysterious world the photographs revealed, Swope and partner Michael Hurst created a book - Casa Susanna. It was only after the book was published in 2005 that the authors began to learn the story of Casa Susanna and Susanna herself
http://www.sextelevision.net/archives/episodeArchivesDisplay.asp?segmentID=491&seasonID=9 While at a Manhattan flea market, antique dealer Robert Swope discovered a collection of intimate snap shots of cross-dressers from the 1950's and 60's. Moved by the mysterious world the photographs revealed, Swope and partner Michael Hurst created a book - Casa Susanna. It was only after the book was published in 2005 that the authors began to learn the story of Casa Susanna and Susanna herself
BAKER-HAMILTON IRAQ STUDY GROUP RECOMMENDS RENEWED AMERICAN LEADERSHIP TO RESOLVE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
/The Report of the Iraq Study Group issued November 6, 2006 states that U.S. goals in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East cannot be met without renewed, direct American leadership to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Report also recommends changes in American policy to deal with the related conflicts between Israel and Syria and Israel and Lebanon. Excerpts from the 96 page Report follow, with page references. The entire report can be read at the U.S. Institute of Peace <http://e2ma.net/go/446916681/352830/11198792/goto:http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html>. /
/*From the Executive Summary:*/
The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab- Israeli conflict andregional instability. There must be a renewed and sustained commitment by the United States to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts: Lebanon, Syria, and President Bush's June 2002 commitment to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. This commitment must include direct talks with, by, and between Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians (those who accept Israel's right to exist), and Syria...
*/Israeli-Palestinian Conflict pp 54-58/*
* The United States will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East unless the United States deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict.
There must be a renewed and sustained commitment by the United States to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts: Lebanon, Syria, and President Bush's June 2002 commitment to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. This commitment must include direct talks with, by, and between Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians (those who accept Israel's right to exist), and particularly Syria--which is the principal transit point for shipments of weapons to Hezbollah, and which supports radical Palestinian groups.
The United States does its ally Israel no favors in avoiding direct involvement to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. For several reasons, we should act boldly:
There is no military solution to this conflict.
The vast majority of the Israeli body politic is tired of being a nation perpetually at war. ( Collapse )
