Propaganda vehicle?

Architectural Review, The, Nov, 2004 by Josef Habas

SIR: I am an old subscriber of your magazine. The magazine is usually professional and very interesting. Unfortunately, it is the second time you fall victim to an anti-Israeli cheap propaganda.

First, was your article View from Ramallah (AR May 2002), fully dedicated to allegations againt Israel and the occupation of the city. The lynch massacre that happened there against two Israclis some weeks before your article was not mentioned of course.

I asked myself, and wrote to you then--what has your magazine to do with politics or attacks against my country?

Now you publish in your July magazine a letter by Abe Hayeem relating to Tel Aviv the white city. The letter is full of fury and hate against Israel, full of lics and looks like a Palestinian propaganda.

Again, I ask you, are you an editor of a professional magazine or a vehicle for Palestinian propaganda? If you decided to publish that letter, why could not you devote some words to the subject itself, of Tel Aviv?

I want to tell you, that we have in Israel a lot of talented, world famous architects. Some of them may be readers of your magazine. Imagine what they feel about your magazine when they read this letter.

Yours etc

JOSEF HABAS

Tel-Aviv, Israel