A-7 News reported on February 24:

"Meeting with foreign ambassadors in the Knesset on Tuesday, Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin (Likud) said, 'If the trend doesn't change, the U.S. and Britain will be next in line' to pay the price for the world's double standards, and for their willingness to fight, in the war against terrorism.

"'According to the standards laid down by the Goldstone investigation,' Rivlin said, 'Winston Churchill should have been charged with war crimes, as should the American and British armies in Iraq. In the meanwhile, though, only Israel is paying the price of the double standard that does not differentiate between attacker and victim, or between terrorism and self-defense.'

"The Goldstone Commission, charged by the United Nations with investigating Israel's counter-terrorist Cast Lead offensive against Hamas-run Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, accused Israel of war crimes, attacks upon civilians, and the like. 'If the trend doesn't change,' Rivlin continued, 'the next in line to be accused will be the members of the militaries of Great Britain, the U.S., and the other countries of the free world.'

"Some 70 ambassadors and foreign representatives took part in the Knesset event, which dealt with the fight of the democratic countries against terrorism... Rivlin warned of another terrific loss of life such as occurred in World War II... 'Terrorism is trying to paralyze and silence democracies fighting against it,' the veteran Jerusalemite Knesset Member said... Rivlin called on the nations of the world to stand by Israel in its fight against terrorism – a struggle that he said is 'beginning to take on dimensions of World War III.'"