'…The Mossad regarded the situation (Bush's plans for a Palestinian State) as a life-or-death crisis and decided to solve the problem once and for all, and to them, it was clear what they must do…

‘…It was clear from the start that Bush’s assassination would be blamed on the Palestinians, perhaps ending once and for all their irritating resistance and making them the people most hated by all Americans…Since the Mossad had all the security arrangements in hand, it would not be a problem in bringing the killers as close as they wanted to President Bush and then staging his assassination. In the ensuing confusion, the Mossad people would kill the ‘perpetrators,’ scoring yet another victory for the Mossad. With the assassins dead, it would be difficult to discover where the ‘security breach’ had been, except that several countries involved in the conference, such as Syria, were regarded as countries that assisted terrorists…’ –Former Mossad Agent Victor Ostrovsky in his book ‘The Other Side of Deception’