Every August fills me with additional tension. Experience shows that those powers and leaders who have ambitions to commit atrocities know that this is an optimum time to do so. The same can also be said of the Christmas-New Year period. Those leaders who care about American and European pressure know that politicians from these states all head off on holiday at these times. As an advocate myself, I know how tough it is to build any political pressure when the political and media classes are sunning themselves on beaches, charting their way around golf courses or relaxing en famille.

Every August fills me with additional tension. Experience shows that those powers and leaders who have ambitions to commit atrocities know that this is an optimum time to do so.…

Analysts point to uptick in activity of settlement movement as it bids to entrench West Bank chokehold.