BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: Amid all of the finger-pointing, the fighting continues. CNN's, Richard Blystone has this update on the fighting, now, from Jerusalem.</s>RICHARD BLYSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The studied words of the diplomat and the cries in the street could come from two different worlds. Fresh clashes in the Gaza Strip on this Mediterranean coast. And in the West Bank, fighting springs from the funerals for at least nine Palestinians killed Friday in some of the worst clashes in this three- week conflict. A new intifadah, successor to the four-year streak campaign that ended with Palestinian-Israeli negotiations a decade ago. According to Marwan Barghouti, a leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement:</s>MARWN BARGHOUTI, FATAH LEADER: ... the Israeli government to take the brave decision to withdraw from the</s>BLYSTONE: The counter-view from Dan Merridor, chairman of Israel's defense and foreign affairs committee:</s>DAN MERRIDOR, ISRAELI FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE: When I hear the Palestinians saying on television, we are at the war of the independence of Palestine, I understand they prefer war to peace. A stupid and difficult historic mistake. But we have to face it.</s>BLYSTONE: Overnight, a new development on Israel's northern border; the defense forces report an attack at the border fence. One body was found after Israelis responded with small arms, tanks and helicopters. From Lebanon, the Hezbollah movement, which waged a war of attrition with the Israelis before they withdrew from south Lebanon in May, says it's fighters were not involved. (on camera): As the weeks wear on, the words of diplomats and leaders seem more and more irrelevant. Reaction follows reaction; the initiative is in the streets. Richard Blystone, CNN, Jerusalem.
Amid Outbreaks of Violence in Israel, Peace Seems Unlikely in Middle East