WHAT does the word homeland mean to Palestinians? It is not an easy concept to describe. For them, homeland may not mean a piece of land they all live on. If this was how they defined it, perhaps they have long felt that the land they live on is no longer theirs, as the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea slowly turned into Israel, inch by inch.

For them, homeland may not be a geographic line on a map. For people wh