"Immediately, in English, doesn't mean at once," Shimon Peres explained in Hebrew to Israeli journalists in Washington on October 23rd. "It means as soon as possible." The day before, the American State Department had told Israel to end its armouredincursions into six Palestinian towns "immediately". But this, Israel's foreign minister explained, was meant "not in the chronological sense but rather in the intentional sense."
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