Posted on: 04/25/2025 (Last update: 04/25/2025 time: 10:06)
The Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization is scheduled to meet on April 23 and 24. The main item in the agenda of the meeting will be to create the position of Vice President of the Palestine Liberation Organization, for the first time, who also holds the position of Vice President of the State of Palestine “The existing.
While it is still unclear whether the council and Abbas will establish the position without his work, there is great speculation that Abbas will take advantage of the irregular meeting of the 180 members of the Council to appoint the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al -Sheikh, in this position.
In fact, Abbas has been preparing for the Sheikh as a possible successor, putting him at the forefront of discussions with Israel, and even used it to pave the way to cancel the general elections of the Palestinian Authority 1, which was scheduled to take place in May 2021. The Sheikh was also among a few of the chosen Palestinian leaders who joined Abbas and many members of his family from the Palestinian Authority that suffers from financial hardship in the World Cup I stay in Qatar.
Since the sheikh is likely to inherit such an important position, which he may automatically push him to the highest Palestinian leadership position, knowing his identity, what he did, and some of his views are important.
Sheikh was born in Ramallah in 1960. He joined the Fatah movement in his teenage years, and according to his official page on the Palestine Liberation Organization website, he was imprisoned by Israel as a “political prisoner” – a waved Palestinian expression referring to the convicted terrorist – for 11 years, between 1978 and 1989. Although there are no accurate details of his conviction, I, as the former director of the Military Prosecution in the West Bank, I can bear witness that the length of his sentence indicates his conviction for severe terrorist activities.
After being released from prison, the Sheikh continued his membership in the Fatah movement, and held various positions.
The sheikh was involved in the killing of Zibi, Jad Shaimish and Isaac Cohen
On March 21, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in the center of Jerusalem. In the attack, three people – Tzipi and Jad Shaimish, who were returning to their home after examining the pregnancy and Isaac Cohen – were killed – and wounded dozens. Two elements of Fatah – Abdel Karim Awais and Nasser Shawish. Among the other details, Owais explained in his confessions during the investigation and in front of the court how to carry out the attack. According to Aweys, he and Shawish got the explosives necessary for the explosive belt from the head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service at the time, Tawfiq Al -Tirawi. Awais added that on the morning of the attack, he and Shawish and the suicide bomber went to the offices of the Sheikh, who was then secretary of the Fatah movement in the West Bank. While the explosive belt was equipped, the Sheikh, who previously held the position of colonel in the Preventive Security Service of the Palestinian Authority, handed over the suicide bomber an amount of money and two handcuffs. As with Al -Tirawi and hundreds of terrorists to open others, the Sheikh was never arrested and did not try to involve and contribute to the killings. Rather, he had a pivotal role in reaching the “wanted deal” in 2007. As part of this deal, the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, promised the leadership of Fatah that Israel would stop chasing hundreds of Fatah terrorists, including the perpetrators of mass killings, responsible for killing hundreds of Israelis, provided that they are throwing their weapons and refraining from continuing to participate in terrorism. Although most of the terrorists covered by the deal violated its rulings, less than a handful of them were arrested and tried.
The sheikh supports the “payment for killing” policy pursued by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority
When Israel responded to the payment policy for the killing “pursued by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority by approving the freezing law, the Sheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs of the Palestinian Authority at the time, rushed to the response, threatening that if Israel applies the law, the decision will have” political, security and financial consequences, and the leadership of our people will take a series of decisions and steps in response to this. ” Saying: All options will be open to deal with this decision. ” When the banks operating under the authority of the Palestinian Authority decided to close the accounts of 35,000 terrorists, the sheikh replied, “The decision to close the accounts of prisoners in banks affects the dignity of every Palestinian, which is unacceptable, and constitutes a submission to the will of the occupation.” He added the need to build a Palestinian national consensus to defend our prisoners and their rights and protect their dignity. They are our great glory and our national pride. “
Sheikh “bends” in front of the family of the killers of the killers
In Palestinian society, Latifa Abu Hamid family has a special place. This shame is not due to the contributions of the prominent family in Palestinian society, but rather to the participation of six of its sons actively in killing the Jews. An indictment was charged with the last family of the family who joined the group of the killers, and was convicted of killing the Israeli soldier, Ronin Leoparsky, in 2018. The sheikh added, during his visit to the site, 9: “We bow to this family, its struggle history, and its heroism.”
When one of the most famous terrorists, Nasser Abu Hamid, who was responsible for killing seven people in prison due to cancer, died, the Sheikh rushed to join the defamation campaign to offend Israel as the treatment of Palestinian prisoners. Abu Hamid described as a hero prisoner. ”The Sheikh promoted the terrorist to the rank of“ Brigade ”and the Sheikh added:“ What matters to us now is that we have sent a direct request to hand over his body to his family, friends and people, so that they honored him as it is appropriate for the martyr, and his family deserves the fighting family, who is unable to describe the greatness of this family and this mother. ”
Sheikh Biden administration option
After the deterioration of relations between the United States and the Palestinian Authority during the first term of President Donald Trump, in 2021, then the then Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Muhammad Ashtia, chose the leadership discussions with the newly -elected president, Biden, to undermine Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and reopen the American consulate. Later, the Sheikh seemed to have won the friend of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the time of the then Foreign Minister Anthony Blinkne, and the shameful American Aid Agency. In confirmation of this new link, the sheikh was invited to attend meetings in Washington, a step that required Blinken to activate an exemption from the American law that prohibits members of the Palestine Liberation Organization to enter the United States.
The sheikh calls for unity with Hamas
A few months before the massacre of October 7, 2023, which was carried out by Hamas, and in light of a wave of Palestinian terrorism, the sheikh repeated his call to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to fill the gap between them. In an interview on Palestinian television, the sheikh called on all the “Palestinian national nationalities – an other colored Palestinian expression that refers to various Palestinian groups, including the perpetrators of genocide crimes in Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – to form a wide front against what he called” Israeli aggression. “He expressed his hope for the success of the dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, saying:” You have to fight this enemy [إسرائيل] On all fronts, and in all squares, without exception to you to fight it on the ground and in international organizations and bodies. “
Even after the October 7 massacre, the Sheikh continued to describe Hamas as “brothers”. When Israel assassinated the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in July 2024, the Sheikh was keen to announce on his account on “X” that he contacted another leader in Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, to offer his condolences. In his publication, the sheikh claimed that the “martyrdom” of Haniyeh is a heavy loss of the Palestinian people.
What is the support that the Sheikh enjoys in the Palestinian street?
Although he possesses all the necessary qualifications to become a Palestinian leader – as a terrorist who spent a period in Israeli prisons, and a refugee family from Palestine under the British Mandate – the Sheikh is not popular or broad Palestinian support. When Abbas, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, appointed him, this step was only 26% of the voters. And in opinion polls conducted by the center
The Palestinian for political and survey research, before the Palestinian Authority elections, which were scheduled to hold in 2021 before Abbas canceled it, the name of the Sheikh was not even mentioned as a potential leader.
Summary
While Abbas and the Palestinian leadership will try to present the Sheikh if he is appointed to the new position as a moderate and practical face, add all the formulas of similar preference as it deems appropriate for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the fact of the matter is that it is just another terrorist who wears a suit of the same fabric as its predecessors. Similar to them, the terrorists glorify and insist on the right of terrorists to receive major cash payments as a reward for their participation in terrorism. Similar to them, he refers to Israel as the “enemy”. He has, similar to them, he registered from participating in terrorism that allows him to refer to the Abadis terrorists from Hamas as “brothers”. Like them, he is satisfied with eating wine and dinner submitted by the international community, especially former members of the Biden administration, and his appointment to the highest Palestinian position, even if the Palestinians do not want it.
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