report said that during private meetings between Israeli and American officials, the Israelis referred to how the United States and other allied powers resorted to devastating bombings in Germany and Japan during World War II and the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat the Axis powers.

　　以色列官员还提到2001年对美国的袭击引发了“反恐战争”，为其在加沙的行动辩护。