Hmmmm

Nathan Guttman writes in Forward that Barack Obama’s chief of staff has in the past supported the Geneva Initiative – Yossi Beilin and Jimmy Carter’s 2003 effort to supplant the Roadmap:  “Emanuel’s Record on Israel Is More Dovish Than the Headlines Suggest”:

[I]n May 2003 he was one of four Jewish members of Congress to sign a “Dear Colleague” bipartisan letter to President Bush in support of the so-called roadmap for Middle East peace, which was signed by 44 House members.  The letter came as a counterpoint to one supported by Aipac, which Emanuel also signed, implying that Congress did not support the roadmap.  He then signed another letter to Bush in July 2003, backing $20 million in direct funding for the Palestinian Authority.  In November 2003, he was one of two Jewish members to co-sponsor a House resolution to support the Geneva Initiative, an unofficial framework agreement for a two-state solution reached between moderate Palestinians and dovish Israelis.