Word: discomfit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again a resolution that would have toughened economic sanctions against Serbia and, it was hoped, would have persuaded its President, Slobodan Milosevic, to pressure his Bosnian Serb acolytes into signing on to the Vance-Owen peace plan. Washington did not want to force an anti-Serb vote that might discomfit President Boris Yeltsin, who faces Russian nationalists generally sympathetic to the Serb cause in a referendum April 25. The U.N. looked set to content itself with its early decision to assign NATO to enforce a long-declared no- fly zone over Bosnia, but the relentless shelling by the Serbs around...
...views on the Middle East, Jackson does discomfit some pro-Israel groups, because he understands that much of the world sees the Israeli-Arab conflict not as a battle between Jews and anti-Semites but as one between white European colonialists and colored natives. Jackson would never support a return to the blank check American patronage of Israel that some groups demand. I know that this is reason enough for some American Jews to refuse to support him for president, as is their right. It is wrong, however, to proclaim that Jackson's stance demonstrates anti-Semitism and makes...