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They offered a variety of views on the two-year-old in- tifada. Some said that Israel should begin immediate negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and some took the position that the Jewish state must find a more suitable partner at the peace table. "There are no military means to end the intifada with Israel's democratic values and self-image set in place," said Dr. Myron Aronoff, chairman of the department of political science at Rutgers Univer- sity in New Brunswick, N.J. "It's in the best interests of the nation to take risks. The future is rife with as many possibilities for peace as dangers. The intifada has proven Israel cannot have a resolution without dealing with the PLO. Otherwise, there' could be some serious hardening on both sides of the conflict." Aronoff made his com- ments last week at Baltimore Hebrew Univer- sity's nine-hour "Conference on Israel and the Intifada." Representing a wide variety of political views, the ex- perts spoke at the marathon session co-sponsored by the university and agencies of Baltimore's Jewish federa- tion. Dr. Robert 0. Freedman, dean of graduate studies at BHU and chairman of the event, said the conference was the first of its kind. Par- ticipants discussed the na- ture of the intifada, external responses to it and the upris- ing's effect on Israeli politics with more than 180 au- dience members. The major blockage toward negotiations, said David Peleg, minister of informa- tion at the Israeli embassy, is finding a partner for peace. "It's like playing chess with yourself," Peleg said. Calling the election plan of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir "sincere and imaginative," Peleg said no Arab groups, including the PLO, have come forth to em- brace the peace initiative. King Hussein: Most threatened. "We came up with a pro- posal and didn't get an an- swer ," he said. "Palestinians should ask themselves what would have happened if they answered our call for negotiations in 1978 [in the Camp David ac- cords]. They would be in a progressive stage of negotia- tions by now. But they wanted 100 percent of their demands met. They've never been open to compromise. But we feel there are leaders in the West Bank and Gaza who realize the only solution will be a compromise." Dr. Ken Stein, director of Middle East Studies and pro- fessor of history at Emory University's Carter Center, said that although the in- tifada and the Arab upris- ings of the late 1930s used similar protest tactics, the focus of each was different. He said today's Palestinians are pursuing a nationalist cause for statehood rather than a matter of land and village preservation. Because the intifada is a nationalist movement rather than a series of isolated terrorist actions, Israel has been unable to suppress the uprising, said Dr. Bard O'Neill, director of Middle East Studies and di- rector of studies of insurgen- cy and revolution at the Na- tional War College in Washington, D.C. Helena Cobban, research associate at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., said that the close relation- ship between "diaspora" Palestinians and the pro- testers in the occupied ter- ritories will force Israel to recognize the need to negotiate with the PLO.