Leila Shahid, who was born Leila al-Husseini Shahid on July 13, 1949, in Beirut, Lebanon, and died on February 18, 2026, in Lussan, France, was a Palestinian diplomat, General Delegate of Palestine to France from 1994 to 2005, and General Delegate of Palestine to the European Union, Belgium, and Luxembourg from 2005 to 2015.

The Norwegian diplomat who was a key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords is facing a storm of corruption and blackmail allegations after new documents revealed he was deeply embedded in the inner circle of late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.Terje Rod-Larsen, a central figure in the Middle East “peace process” in the 1990s, is implicated in newly released United States Justice Department files and Norwegian media investigations that expose a relationship involving illicit loans, visa fraud for sex-trafficked women, and a beneficiary clause in Epstein’s will worth millions of dollars.

The Israeli genocide in Gaza is the product of long building “trends … political and social brutalization, the institutionalization of fascism and the systematic erosion of restraint, respectful language and the boundaries of what’s permitted and forbidden. Cruelty, violence and revenge stopped being seen as a deviation and became … legitimate options.”This is today’s Israel. The process of cultural corruption is not exactly the same as that of interwar Germany under Nazi influence but, as we have seen, there is enough of an overlap. And, the abdication of individual thought to an aggressive ideology is particularly similar, as are some of the horrible consequences.