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Amanda Bailleu's remarks in her leader, Sharks lurk in ethical waters, are gratuitous and offensive. Two wrongs have never made a right, and for any architect to design buildings to be put on illegally occupied land is morally obnoxious and abetting Israel in its ethnic cleansing programme. I do not think Zaha Hadid is wise to build a monument to a leader with a poor human rights record, but the man is dead, the land is Azerbaijan's own. There is no equivalence with Israel, which forces Palestinians from their ancestral property, steals their land and encloses it within their own "defensive" wall, and brutalises the population with daily barrages of rocks, rubber bullets and worse in the hope of driving them off their land. To build on these areas is morally repulsive and utterly wrong.