Throwing darts at Ashrawi.

• Position: Letters to the Editor

Hanan Ashrawi's voice is passionate but not compassionate ("Where We Went Wrong," February issue). She claims the moral high ground while expressing pious contempt for the Israeli people, even the very large peace camp--which she caustically brackets in quotes--that her people proceeded to devastate by their violence. The Palestinians elected Ariel Sharon just as surely as if they had all cast ballots.

Ashrawi bemoans the very real miseries which her people have experienced at the hands of Israel's brutal reaction to the second intifada, yet she sees no cause and effect. She is silent on the random and deliberate murder of innocents which the intifada exults in. And she has nothing to say on how the uprising begun by her people in September 2000 destroyed a negotiating process that finally would have led them to statehood and an end to the occupation she so rightfully hates.

The Palestinians' situation is to be pitied. Their conduct, however, is pitiful.

Ralph Seliger New York, New York As someone who believes that neither side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a monopoly on...