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 have always appreciated professional and academic publications and organizations that take the time to deal with political issues. I read Tom Kay’s article on Ramallah with interest. May I suggest that for the sake of unbiased reporting you run a follow-up. May I suggest that this be on my dear friend, Moshe Derfler, 45, a photographer who worked closely with many architects, and who was blasted to pieces by a 'holy martyr' in the Nahariya train station on Sept.9, 2001. May I also suggest that your follow-up include a few words about Yigal Goldstein, 47, an architect who died in the same terrorist attack; and maybe even a few words about Dov Chernobroda, 67, another architect who was killed in the terrorist attack in a restaurant in Haifa on March 31. And while you are at it, maybe mention Daniel Carlos Wegman, a 50 year old engineer, who was killed in the same event; and Aviel Ron, 54, a man responsible for the digital mapping of the country; his son Ofer, 18, and daughter Anat, 21. Or maybe, write a few words about Aviel Ron’s wife and Ofer and Anat’s mother, a computers expert at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Technion, injured during that same attack, and left alive with the memories of an annihilated family. What about Eyal Yoel, 29, a graduate student in our University, and a friend’s grandson – are you interested in chemical engineers or just architects? There are many more including also simple construction workers, such as Constantin Straturula, 52, and Virgil Martinesc 29, two Romanian citizens employed by an Israeli contractor, killed in a bomb attack on May 10, 2001. And if you are really interested in fair reporting, why not run a sequel to your Ramallah article, one that can include numerous pictures of the cafes, restaurants, buses, bus stops, main streets, malls and other Israeli urban settings blasted to pieces time and again by the Ramallah-directed holy martyrs and freedom fighters? Would you care to include in such an article some more of the 505 Israelis assassinated between Sept.2000 and May 2002? I am sure you will find in my suggestion enough architecture-related material worth you time and space – maybe even more so than in Tom Kay’s article. Yours etc ISAAC A. MEIR Israel