The Olympic Games, an international affair, are a time when the entire world comes together and temporarily forgets past conflicts to enjoy seventeen days of competition. When Munich, West Germany, hosted the Olympic Games in 1972, it started like any other, with hundreds of athletes and a memorable opening ceremony. The events proceeded without any difficulty until the sixteenth day of the games. In a time when all conflicts were suspended, no one would have thought that there would be such a catastrophic circumstance as the Olympic massacre. With the world watching, Palestinians and Israelis fought to get what they wanted through elaborate plans and arduous negotiations. Fragile relations between the Germans, Israelis and Palestinians exacerbated the devastation, turning what would have been purely negotiations into a massacre. 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, owes its name to the conflict between Palestinians and the Jordanian armed forces in September 1970. The conflict consisted of the expulsion of Palestinians from Jordan after the 1970 Jordanian civil war between the PLO and indigenous Jordanians. which accused the first of taking control of the Hashemite monarchy, led by King Hussein. Thus, the Black September organization was founded to take revenge on the Jordanian army and the Hashemite monarchy, especially King Hussein. Their first significant act was the attack and assassination of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal on March 27, 1963 in Cairo, Egypt, whom they accused of personally torturing and executing a Fata... . middle of paper. ....by snipers. The five remaining hostages were bombarded with machine gun bullets. Three Palestinians were captured by West German police. The inability to communicate within the West German system complicated the process and lost the possible opportunity to rescue the Israeli hostages. The ambiguity of all the negotiations and the complications of relationships have ruined the original plans and convoluted the original plans. These two aspects were the main and imminent factors (since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a long-standing factor) which led to the deaths of all the hostages, five of the eight terrorists and some West German officials. The inability to cooperate between Israelis and Palestinians left many chances to save the lives of some, if not all, of the deceased and to gradually restore relations between the two..