He warned Kennedy to prioritise ruthlessly, to "postpone what is postponable" and to set up working groups right away with a "bird-dog" in charge to keep them focused.
His last trip was in September 2013 and due to "urgent family reasons" was he forced to postpone a trip in September this year.
But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.
Some £108m of the cash is to underwrite the new "deferred payment" scheme, by which councils will enable homeowners to postpone payment of long-term care costs until after their death, and so avoid selling their properties during their lifetime.
Real power is power too potent, too indispensable, to pause or freeze or postpone.
Analysts have said the ageing Karimov is trying to postpone a power transition that has recently been complicated by an ugly family feud.
Sundance Selects has the option to postpone the US release of Blue for a year in the hope that it will be shortlisted for the 2015 Oscars, but it is unlikely to want to wait that long.
Hence the three-possibly-four-way split looming: votes for and against (Charles Kennedy and Ming Campbell), abstentions, and a vote to postpone the vote, with Clegg making an enforced virtue of self-parodic diversity.
Moore said: "A high number of escalation beds [emergency overflow beds] are in use and we are, unfortunately, having to postpone some elective operations.
In an interview this week on the US public radio show Marketplace, he said: "I saw a recent survey in the US that 75% of the CEOs were willing to postpone the right decisions if it would affect their quarterly reporting, and that cannot be healthy for the long-term of the business.
The worst outcome would be for the government to postpone new anti-corruption legislation in the face of other priorities – and therefore potentially for several years if an election intervenes.
