Rice Calls America 'Israel's Best Friend'

America is Israel's best friend and it will continue its war against terror wherever necessary, although not necessarily by the same means as in Afghanistan, US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice assured Israelis yesterday.

She said the US is pressuring Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to take serious steps to wipe out terror and is going to pressure all states to do the same, whether they are part of the anti-terror coalition or not.

Rice spoke by satellite to a conference on "The Balance of National Strength and Security" at the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzliya.

"Israel will never have a stronger friend than the United States," she said. "We will not have finished our mission until all terror networks have been wiped out."

"President [George W.] Bush has said that there can be no good and bad terror," she said.

"The president has a positive vision of the Middle East where Israelis and Palestinians live in peace, but that vision can only be realized once terror has been ruled out," she said.

Rice said the US priority is hunting down the Qaida network, but did not rule out actions against Iraq.

The regime of Saddam Hussein, she said, was a threat before the terror attacks in the US on September 11 and remains a threat to the region "as long as it stays in power." She did not say how the US would deal with Iraq.

Rice praised the level of security cooperation between the US and Israel, implying that there is no need to increase that cooperation through a joint defense pact.

"The United States has always done all that is needed to help Israel to defend itself," she said. "At this point, our cooperation is... excellent... we can explore new ways to improve our cooperation. She pointed to cooperation on anti-ballistic missile programs.

Answering a question by former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit on America's double standard toward Saudi Arabia, Rice said Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally and helped the US defeat Saddam during the Gulf War.

She said Saudi Arabia's support during the Gulf War also contributed to Israel's security.

Uh... Rice didn't say Israel was our friend. She just said we were Israel's friend.

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friend (fr

nd)
n.

A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement.
Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.

tr.v. Archaic friend·ed, friend·ing, friends

To befriend.

[Middle English, from Old English frond. See pr- in Indo-European Roots.]

friendless adj.
friendless·ness n.

Word History: A friend is a lover, literally. The relationship between Latin amcus “friend” and am “I love” is clear, as is the relationship between Greek philos “friend” and phile “I love.” In English, though, we have to go back a millennium before we see the verb related to friend. At that time, frond, the Old English word for “friend,” was simply the present participle of the verb fron, “to love.” The Germanic root behind this verb is *fr-, which meant “to like, love, be friendly to.” Closely linked to these concepts is that of “peace,” and in fact Germanic made a noun from this root, *frithu-, meaning exactly that. Ultimately descended from this noun are the personal names Frederick, “peaceful ruler,” and Siegfried, ”victory peace.” The root also shows up in the name of the Germanic deity Frigg, the goddess of love, who lives on today in the word Friday, “day of Frigg,” from an ancient translation of Latin Veneris dis, “day of Venus.”

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friend \Friend\ (fr[e^]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS. fre['o]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre['o]n, fre['o]gan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[ae]ndi kinsman, Sw. fr["a]nde. Goth. frij[=o]nds friend, frij[=o]n to love. [root]83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.] 1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. --Dryden.

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. --Prov. xviii. 24.

2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

Friend, how camest thou in hither? --Matt. xxii. 12.

3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.

America was first visited by Friends in 1656. --T. Chase.

5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak.

A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.

To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. ``He's . . . friends with C[ae]sar.'' --Shak.

To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. ``Having now made friends with the Athenians.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).

friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Friended; p. pr. & vb. n. Friending.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.]

Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser.

friend n 1: a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university" 2: an associate who provides assistance; "he's a good ally in fight"; "they were friends of the workers" [syn: ally, confederate] [ant: foe] 3: a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" [syn: acquaintance] 4: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" [syn: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster] 5: a member of the Religious Society of Friends [syn: Quaker, Friend]

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