Hussein al-Sheikh has been named vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hussein al-Sheikh has been named vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the internationally recognized representative of the Palestinian people.

Sheikh, a relatively unknown Fatah veteran and former prisoner in Israel, has been chosen as deputy chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and vice president of the Palestinian Authority (PA),

Hussein Al-Sheikh is no moderate and shows how the PA is far from any sort of either substantive or structural “revitalization”