Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin told ambassadors and other foreign representatives Tuesday morning that Israel is alone in paying the price for conflict-crimes accusations contained in the Goldstone report on its counterterror campaign against Hamas in Gaza last winter, yet other Western militaries will face similar charges.

Rivlin's remarks came at the start of a gathering on democratic struggles hosted by the Knesset for about 70 foreign representatives. He stated that aside from the obvious threat to governments and their tries to protect their citizens, international terror's hidden however greater threat is giving it a moral dilema of protecting those citizens without compromising the principles it is protecting