Palestinians protestors chanting anti-Israeli and American slogans during demonstration against the Middle East summit in Nuseirat refugee

Additional Reporting By Mostafa al-Sawaf, IOL Palestine Correspondent

GAZA CITY, June 7 (IslamOnline.net) - The Islamic Jihad movement called Friday, June 6, for holding talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian factions, as the Islamic resistance movement Hamas asserted that it would not hold talks with Abbas unless the latter backtrack on the “concessions” he made during Jordan’s Aqaba summit with his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush.

“We call for an all-inclusive meeting with Abbas, which will bring together all Palestinian factions and not for one-by-one meetings,” Mohammad al-Hindi, a senior leader with the Islamic Jihad, told IslamOnline.net.

He said Abbas is demanded during the meeting – expected to be held Saturday, June 7 -- to “make clear for the Palestinian people before such a meeting some burning issues he touched upon in his Aqaba’s speech, such as the condemnation of the Palestinian resistance, Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), settlement activity, Palestinian prisoners and the right of return.”

Abbas’ speech sharply conflicts with “the fixtures” he asserted during his talks with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, Hindi said.

“We will demand Abbas to halt all negotiations with the Israelis and all attempts aimed at killing the Palestinian resistance stone dead,” he added.

Hindi said the meeting will dwell on means of facing the daunting challenges in the days ahead, the outcome of Aqaba summit, noting that the movement would assert the importance of dissipating any tensions on the Palestinian political landscape and reiterate its rejection of laying down arms.

He further said all Palestinian factions, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are determined to “make the Israeli enemy miss out on stirring a Palestinian civil strife.”

The U.S.-driven ‘road map’ for Mideast peace calls on the Palestinians to curb “terrorism” and on Israelis to freeze all settlement activity and dismantle outposts, in the first steps leading to a Palestinian state in 2005.

But analysts said that Aqaba summit proved to be a double-edged sword for Abbas.

Hamas Adamant

Meanwhile, Hamas ruled out Saturday, June 7, any contact with Abbas.

"We reject any meeting with Abbas until he abandons all commitment to his Aqaba statement," senior Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Rantissi told Al-Jazeera.

Rantissi said Hamas was convening its own talks with four other groups as his own contemplated how far it could push its hand in its war of words with Abbas, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Islamic Jihad, Arafat's Fatah movement, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), were all expected to attend, Rantissi said.

On Friday, June 6, Hamas said it would not hold talks with the Palestinian premier on halting attacks on the Israelis.

"Abbas does not represent us, and we refuse to meet with him because there is no point to it," Rantissi told AFP.

Rantisi said that Abbas made too many concessions to the Israelis in his Aqaba’s speech in Jordan.

The summit in Aqaba "declared war on the Palestinian people," and the Abbas' government was not doing anything for legitimate national rights,” he said.

"Abbas closed the door to dialogue by himself," Rantisi said. "He committed himself in front of Bush and Sharon (to) what Palestinians refused."

For his part, Palestinian Culture Minister Ziad Abu Amr said that Abbas prepared to meet Palestinian factions sometime in the next two days.

"Contacts between the government and the different factions did not stop before or after the Aqaba summit, even though the summit complicated things,” AFP quoted as saying Abu Amr, the official responsible for contacts with the various factions.

He specifically said the meeting would include Hamas, but Rantissi later said he had no knowledge of any such gathering.