According to former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky, elements of the Mossad were plotting an attempt on the life of President George Bush. The reason: according to Ostrovsky, Bush is hated by the Mossad and considered an enemy of Israel. This revelation was published in the February 1992 edition of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. The author of the report was former Congressman Paul Findley (R-Ill.), himself a prominent critic of Israel. (Findley's best-selling book, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, is a classic exposition of the way Israel Lobby has worked to silence American critics of the foreign nation.) Republican Senator Pete McCloskey explained on CSPAN how the Mossad tried and failed to assassinate George H.W. Bush in 1991.

see Israel's attempted assassination of US Ambassador John Gunther Dean on 28 August 1980 in a suburb of Beirut by Israeli founded terrorist group, detailed in Ronen Bergman's book, “Rise and Kill First”

see suspicious death of US Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, detailed in David Martin's book, The Assassination of James Forrestal