Baruch Goldstein: The undiscussed controversy

https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-wilder-way/baruch-goldstein-20-years-later-363967

At the beginning of that fateful week, the then General Shaul Mufaz visited with the Kiryat Arba leadership for an emergency meeting. Baruch Goldstein, as the doctor of the area, was present. Mufaz told of intelligence information concerning a planned terror attack in the area of Machpela towards the end of the week. Baruch Goldstein was asked to ‘be prepared.’ The Saturday night prior to the attack, during evening prayers, Arabs inside Machpela chanted ‘itbach el-Yahud,’ ‘Slaughter the Jews.’ The IDF did nothing to stop this. The night before his attack,the evening of Purim,while reciting Megilat Esther,when we read how Haman planned to annihilate the Jews, again, Arabs yelled and screamed, ‘itbach el-Yahud.’ Despite Goldstein’s protests, nothing was done to stop it. The next morning he arrived there early, shot and killed twenty nine Arabs as they prayed, wounding dozens of others. It seems, as much as can be assumed, that he very simply cracked, deciding, ‘if anyone is going to be killed here today, it will be Arabs and not Jews.’ That doesn''t make it right, in any way, shape or form. But that’s what happened.