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they will finally wind up with
will be a bitter war with so
much blood spilled by both
sides that neither can forgive
themselves or the other. It will
be like Belfast. Or Iran and
Iraq."
Ginsberg's criticism of Is-
rael doesn't end there. He
points out that the "Mossad
originally trained Savak (the
secret police force of the Shah
of Iran) and I'm told appar-
ently had a hand in training
the Salvador police apparatus
— including the death
squads."
Citing Israel's support of
deposed and despised Nicara-
guan dictator General Anas-
tasio Somoza, Ginsberg de-
tailed the "very bad record for
Israel" in Latin America and
pointed out how Israel "com-
plains that these Central
Americans are anti-Israel or
anti-Zionist. Well, with very
good reason. Who came first,
the chicken or the egg? In this
case, the Israelis were the
chicken who gave birth to the
egg by backing authoritarian
governments and having their
allies in (North) America like
Norman Podhoretz (editor of
Commentary) and Ben Wat-
tenberg, being part of the Is-
raeli lobby, backing all these
dictatorships.
"I think their (Israel's)
anti-Communism is genuine
and valid but their methods of
combatting Communism are
primitive and are only likely
to increase the possibility of
Communist support. By _
polarizing the radical forces in
South America to such an ex-
tent by their support of inflex-
ible dictatorships, they finally
make it inevitable that there
be Marxist revolutions be-
cause the Marxists are the
only ones who can get it to-
gether after the dictators have
killed all the liberals."
There are some who may
find Ginsberg's stance on
communism incongruous with
his background. After all, as
he put it, "My mother was a
Communist. And my father
was a socialist. My mother was
an atheist, my father was an
agnostic." Ginsberg's father
was the lyric poet Louis
Ginsberg, author of several
books of verse. His mother,
Naomi, was a schoolteacher
who died insane. Ginsberg
wroteKaddish in her memory.
Ginsberg was never bar
mitzvah. He explains: "I went
to Hebrew school vei y briefly,
but the teacher was very in-
tolerant. I didn't seem to fit in
and I was too young to under-
stand how to fit in so they
Allen Ginsberg:
"There's a lot of Jewish elements
in my poetry . . ."
never taught me anything.
They kicked me out finally for
giggling in class. Or for asking
a question. I don't even re-
member which it was. But it
was a little traumatic. I didn't
like to go but my family
wanted me to, and I would've
gone to satisfy them. I wish I
had gone.
"But on the other hand, the
young rabbi who was teaching
me was such a jerk and a dis-
ciplinarian that he didn't
know how to teach me. He had
very poor teaching methods —
I can teach better than him.
You just have to be sympathe-
tic to the people you're teach=
ing and be interested in them,
rather than treat them as a
sort of meat market.
"However, I identify as a
Jew — with the old Heinrich
Heine / Jewish delicatessen /
intellectual/ radical / revolu-
tionary. I identify with the
socialism of the Jews and with
the anarchism of the Jews.
With the poetry and the music,
and with the internationalism
of the Jews, which I think is
one of the major glories of the
Jewish tradition."
Ginsberg paused for a mo-
ment, then added, "Although
in a funny sense the Tibetans
have had their diaspora now
and are teaching Buddhism
and becoming inter-
nationalized like the Jews —
homeless wanderers."
Ginsberg has been a practic-
ing Buddhist for many years.
As he explains it, "My own
practice as a Buddhist is non-
theistic. So that sets up some
difference between my
psychological and philosophi-
cal makeup and one of the tra-
ditional Jewish
philosophical-psychological
positions, which is the abso-
lute authority of the theist ex
machina."
Was that the major attrac-
tion for Ginsberg in Buddh-
ism? "It would seem to be more
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