The Olympics, an international affair, is a time when the entire world comes together and temporarily forgets the conflicts of the past to enjoy seventeen days of competition. When Munich, western Germany, hosted the Olympics in 1972, it started like all the others, with hundreds of athletes and a memorable opening ceremony. The events continued without any difficulty until the sixteenth day of the games. At a time when all conflicts had been suspended, no one would have thought that such a catastrophic circumstance as the Olympic massacre would occur. As the world watched, Palestinians and Israelis struggled to get what they wanted through elaborate plans and arduous negotiations. Fragile relations between Germans, Israelis and Palestinians exacerbated the devastation, turning what would have been simple negotiations into mass murder. A key player in the Olympic massacre, also known as the Munich massacre, was a faction of Fatah, a subsection of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), called Black September. Black September, founded in the fall of 1971, takes the name from the conflict between the Palestinian and Jordanian armed forces in September 1970. The conflict consisted of the expulsion of Palestinians from Jordan following the Jordanian civil war in 1970 which pitted the PLO against the native Jordanians who accused the former of a takeover of the Hashemite monarchy, led by King Hussein. Therefore, the Black September organization was founded to punish the Jordanian army and the Hashemite monarchy, especially King Hussein. Their first significant act was the attack and assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister, Wasfi al-Tal, on March 27, 1963 in Cairo, Egypt, whom they accused of personally torturing and executing a Fairy... means of paper... ....from snipers. The remaining five hostages were hit by machine gun bullets. Three Palestinians were captured by West German police. The inability to communicate throughout the West German system complicated the process and missed a possible opportunity to rescue the Israeli hostages. The ambiguity of all the negotiations and relationship complications have ruined the original plans and twisted the original plans. These two aspects were the main, imminent (since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a long-standing factor) leading to the deaths of all the hostages, five of the eight terrorists, and some West German officials. The failure to cooperate between Israelis and Palestinians has offered multiple possibilities to save the lives of some, if not all, of the deceased and to gradually repair relations between the two.