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: Your editorial decision to offer a most generous four-page space for a political, biased piece called View from Ramallah, in what is supposedly a professional journal on architecture, cannot be understood except as your shameful acquiescence to the lowest level of un-professional and biased journalism. Not one word in that article had anything to do with architecture, whether Palestinian or any other. I question your editorial interest to offer space in your respected professional journal to a warped, totally one-sided perspective of the complex and tragic Israel-Palestinian conflict. If you plan to enter into the sphere of political journalism, should you not have considered publishing another View from Jerusalem/Tel Aviv/Netanyah/Hedera, and mention the reality and the facts, namely that the incursion into Ramallah came after 18 months of horrendous suicide bombers killed innocent Israelis in the streets, cafes, shops, and in family celebrations, culminating in the disastrous attack on Passover night in Netanyah. Since quite clearly, you had no desire to show the full picture of suffering, death and tragedy in Israel as a result of indiscriminate terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists who are financed and supported by the Palestinian Authority, perhaps you should offer an article to describe the architectural carnage there! May I remind you that the reason for the incursion into Ramallah was the necessity to protect Israel from the continuing terror attacks, by rooting out the sources on its own. Perhaps you have a problem accepting this plain truth, but self-protection is a basic human right and I wonder what Londoners would be thinking if they would be subjected to constant terror attacks in their front yard. Even more distastefully revealing was the unforgivable use of Holocaust terminology with respect to the Israeli incursion into Ramallah. You have succumbed, by choice or by error, to the hypocritical and vicious anti-Semitic incitement which is ravaging in Europe. Drawing a parallel between Ramallah and Auschwitz is pure anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. It is a flagrant revision of history to suggest that some tens of new sunglasses strewn on the floor in Ramallah is parallel or reminiscent to the millions of articles and clothing that were taken off millions of Jews on their way to extermination. I was flabbergasted by the audacity to publish such an article in your journal, written in extremely poor literary style, and wonder with dismay that you did not fear to forfeit your credibility by giving space to such profanity. Yours etc Simone Dover