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 naively was under the impression that the AR was a professional monthly journal which would update me on the latest innovations on the architectural world. Instead of the awaited May edition, I received a magazine more closely resembling a political tabloid than an architectural journal. Apart from the fact that the diary was written by a British architect, would you be kind enough to enlighten me of the connection between Tom Kay's war-time diary and your ostensibly "professional architectural journal". On the subject of war-time architecture, we could send you thousands of graphic photos of the hundreds of Israelis murdered and maimed by Palestinian terrorists and armed forces during the past 20 months, who lying in pools of blood provide a backdrop to blown-up buildings such as the Sbarro Pizzeria and Moment Café, both in Jerusalem or the blood-splattered dining room of the Park Hotel in Netanya. In addition, what would your readers make of pictures of the Arab-owned Mazza restaurant – a Haifa eatery popular with both Arabs and Jews – whose roof collapsed on the heads of its patrons after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance, in April of this year. In the same vein, I can forward to you countless pictures of supermarkets, stores, shopping centres, buses, bus stops and markets strewn with destruction, collapsed walls and ceilings, scattered body parts and personal belongings. Each bomb packed with nails is designed to inflict carnage and is invariably detonated in bustling, densely populated areas to cause maximum destruction and to kill as many people as possible. Why after a wave of almost 2 years of terrorist outrages has your magazine suddenly decided to take what is clearly a one-sided look at the conflict in the Holy Land? Are your readers to be treated in future editions to the architectural impact of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan or closer to home, of the Conflict in Northern Ireland. RACHEL WALDEN Tel Aviv Israel