Please send letters for the website, clearly marked FORUM, to Julia Dawson at: julia.dawson@emap.com or The Architectural Review, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, England. View from Ramallah reaction SIR: I am an architect from Israel. I have three comments on the article "view from Ramallah", published in your last issue – to the writer, to the magazine, and to the other readers. First to Mr. Kay: I was also in Ramallah, it was out of plain necessity, being there protected my wife and family, being there prevented the continuation of the killing rage by the Palestinian terrorists, the butchery and destruction of innocent Israeli lives, the horrors that stalked the streets of Israel. I was also there Mr. Kay, when we allowed the ambulances to go inside and evacuate the wounded, but you see- it served the Palestinian propaganda machine better to leave them there. Dead Palestinians, they reason, are better for international opinions. Indeed you proved them right. To Architecture Review: I thought yours is an architecture magazine, however should you decide to convert to a more politically oriented journal, I would suggest a more objective standpoint, let the readers see what is left of a Bauhaus style building featuring a quiet restaurant in Tel-Aviv, after a terrorist – loaded with fifty kilos of C4 explosives – came for a short, terminal visit. Finally, to the other readers I say: imagine taking a bus, or a train, or sitting in a restaurant, or a coffee shop – knowing that it is just a matter of time before a madman will come to take your, and your family lives, and make no mistake – he will come. Only then will you begin to understand what an Israeli architect was doing in Ramallah.   Erez Tal Architect (B. Arch)