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: Shame on you! I read your article in the May 2002 edition entitled "View from Ramallah." What the material in the article has to do with architecture is beyond me. Furthermore, I do not understand how a respectable publication such as The Architectural Review can publish such a one-sided, biased, unverified article such as this. Kay, in the very first (bold) paragraph says that he move to Ramallah in Palestine. I am confident that your readers are intelligent enough to know that there is no country called Palestine! There is an area controlled by a corrupt terrorist organization known as the Palestinian Authority. The article goes ‘down hill’ from there. Note too, that Kay’s own government suggested that he not visit Ramallah, much less move there. I must say, however, that Kay has a vivid imagination. He states that the area was under constant curfew, yet we get his ‘first hand’ information from all over town. He says that he went out looking for cigarettes but from the way he writes, he may have been looking for something a little stronger! (With the fantastic views from his apartment why do we get two pictures of the same building – a building that looks like it should have been knocked down years ago, before it falls down. This one building has many broken windows, but broken from which side, and by whom? The other buildings look in good condition. Most of the plastic signs are intact! And not even one picture of a tank or a soldier.) How strange it is, after two weeks of curfews, etc. On the 10th of April: "Supper this evening was of beautiful salads." It is but a simple slip such as this that reveals just how unbelievable the story really is. Respectfully yours. Moshe Appelbaum, Architect.