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View from Ramallah reaction
Sir: Reading through your May issue, I was surprised to find out that your magazine now covers world politics as well as architecture.
Unfortunately the level of the first is embarrassingly shallow. Your article ‘View from Ramallah’ by Tom Kay proves to be a typical anti-Israeli propaganda of the sort one finds in British papers.
Tom Kay who cannot possibly begin to understand the complexity of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and the objectives of the latest operation in the West Bank, based on his brief experience in the region. (The operation was a result of months of fierce terror attacks and suicide bombers, which killed hundreds of innocent Israelis). He is undoubtedly not qualified to pass any sort of political analysis.
However discriminating your article may be, it is almost unforgivable that being an architectural magazine you have chosen to give him a stage.
Yours etc
YANIV KEDMI
Tel Aviv, Israel