A conversation with my son about Palestine Trying to make sense where it can't be found. By Ashraf Ashkar Text size Copy shortlink: Avoiding the news coming from Palestine and Israel lately has been extremely hard. I have been mostly reading articles and listening to coverage on the radio, but I eventually decided to watch BBC International one early morning for a while before my son woke up. By the time my son was awake, a short documentary about Israeli activists volunteering at a small Palestinian village in the Hebron area was on. The documentary showed some homes of a Palestinian family being demolished by the Israeli army because the nearby Israeli settlement complained about the smell of cooking coming from these homes. Since these Palestinian homes are considered illegal by the Israeli government, the houses were bulldozed and destroyed. My son had an immediate reaction, and looked at me with his jaw open.