AMMAN, June 1 (IslamOnline.net) - U.S. President George W. Bush’s meeting with Palestinian and Israeli Premiers in the Jordanian Red sea port of Aqaba is to be greeted with massive demonstrations, opposition and trade union sources told IslamOnline.net Sunday, June 1.

“There are stepped-up preparations to protest against the arrival of (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon Tuesday, May 3, for the summit conference,” the sources told IslamOnline.net.

Anti-Israeli sentiments have frayed up in Jordan with the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada to resist Israeli occupation in September 2000, in which large numbers of civilians were killed, wounded or maimed by Israeli gunfire.

Jordanians also echo the same anger over the U.S. policies in the region, most of whom believed they are biased to the Jewish state at the expense of Palestinians’ long-standing dreams of creating an independent state and return of their relative refugees to homeland.

“The Arab Islamic Jordan should not play host to a meeting of those two murderers, and the government should pay respect to the desire of people here for not normalizing relations with Israel,” said Hamza Mansourm, the secretary general of the Islamic Action Front (IAF).

“We will show our objection to such a gathering through varied means, including peaceful protests,” Mansour told IOL.

He dubbed the Aqaba summit “a slap on the face of every good Jordanian citizen.”

"The Islamic Action Front party, which knows perfectly well the real US and Zionist aims, rejects and condemns these two summits which should not have been convened on Arab land as Iraqi and Palestinian blood continues to flow at the hands of killers and occupiers led by Bush and Sharon," the IAF said in a statement.

It accused Bush of being "the killer of our brothers in Iraq, and the occupier of Baghdad" and said Sharon "killed our brothers in Palestine and Lebanon, occupies Jerusalem, all of Palestine, the (Syrian) Golan as well as Lebanese land".

"These two killers are meeting on Jordanian soil in a new American-Zionist bid to eliminate the Palestinian cause through what is known as the roadmap," it said.

Jordan received thousands of Palestinian refugees expelled by Israel as of 1948 Middle East war in which the Jewish state seized control of large swathes of Palestinian territories.

The Aqaba summit is expected to see the declaration of exchanging ambassadors between Jordan and Israel, as the Israeli ambassador left Amman several months ago due to security reasons, especially after the Iraq invasion on March 20. Jordan also did not send back its ambassador to Israel since the Palestinian Intifada.

But Jordanians did not expect too much to come up from the Aqaba summit, citing similar meetings that were only ended with “mere promises,” said Taher el-Edwan, editor-in-chief of the Arab Today newspaper.

“It is a public relations get-together, especially between Jordan and Israel,” argued el-Edwan.

Many analysts here are as convinced that the U.S. insistence to convene the summit in Jordan came as “a reward for the country’s support for the invasion on neighboring Iraq,”

Jordan expelled late in March three Iraqi diplomats on charges of harming state security after Washington called on world countries to oust Iraq’s diplomats and close its embassies. But King Abdullah II said his country stood against what he called the invasion of Iraq.

“The summit could also pave the way for a rather pivotal role for Amman as to the Middle East peace process,” some analysts, who refused to give their names, said.