[Dialup Llama]

>You are making the claim it's a forgery. Prove that it is.

I'm 90% sure its a forgery. I did a google search and got 4 hits. All were web forums where posters submitted the same email article. Nowhere did the search reference an original publication which carried this article.

Sobran did write an article called Obsession with Israel (not Obession with Jews), but the body of the real Sobran article is completely different from the forgery.

[willieroe]

I'm 90% sure its a forgery. I did a google search and got 4 hits. All were web forums where posters submitted the same email article. Nowhere did the search reference an original publication which carried this article.

Small but telling point: Sobran doesn't "sign" his articles with "Joe Sobran". Check his website's archives - it's always "Joseph Sobran."

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I think you are right-this is a forgery, or at least some of the most inflammatory parts are. Sobran is anti-Israel, but he is not a moron- I can't imagine that he would commit stuff like that "plague-carriers" paragraph to print.

I guess the thing to do is to email this "article" to him and ask him if he really wrote it, or not?

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I stand corrected- Sobran IS a moron. I went to his site and this is, in fact, in his email edition for 5/02- word for word. Unbelievable- but at least he tells us exactly where he stands.

I think he has lost his mind- the days of American isolationism ended in December 1941,for ever. Father Coughlin is dead and buried- but his spirit apparently remains.

[beckett]

If it's a forgery, it's a remarkably good one. The forger is a professional writer, for certain, who has the skills to emulate Sobran's style very competently.

I think it's much more likely it is Sobran's work. The auspices and provenance may be uncertain at this point, but this is not the kind of column that one might reasonably imagine to be a counterfeit.