American Jewish poet Allen Ginsberg 's 1961 letter on the contradictions of the new Jewish state

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American Jewish poet Allen Ginsberg had some insights on the contradictions of new state of Israel -worthy of " Howl " - way back in 1961 .

  He wrote in a letter to Eugene Brooks, while visiting Tel Aviv : " For the rest there is plenty dissatisfaction that the old idealist socialist Russian kibbutz spirit which first settled the land fading at the advent of prosperity, new middle class, American and German money flooding the holy land with Western -Hollywood styles of living , slow loosening of PURPOSE,

 which once everyone felt ... lots of guilt feelings for the refugees who were ( I now learn ) pushed out with considerable unofficial Jewish terror . .. and anyway it's a Jewish state ,

so even if an Arab is patriotic and wants to integrate , he can't really in the long run without becoming a Jew , which is absurd ... they're not really part of the country since it 's a Jewish state .... "

      " [ I ] wandered in Galilee and even tried ( unsuccessfully ) to walk on Lake Galilee "

      This on page 253 of " The Letters of Allen Ginsberg " edited by Bill Morgan.
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