Madeline Buthod is a delegate on the annual Interfaith Peace Builders’ Olive Harvest delegation. She writes about visiting the Nassar family at the Tent of Nations near Bethlehem in the West Bank which is surrounded by settlements and the Israeli government is trying to take their land. Buthod says, “The Nassar family motto is, “Never give up hope”. In my opinion, they are the epitome of Sumud, which is Arabic for steadfast perseverance.”