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-Analysis- CAIRO — In a recent discussion on the Palestinian cause, my colleague Anush Kapadia, sociology professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, presented a new perspective that grabbed my attention, viewing the Palestinian cause from the perspective of the Israeli authorities’ management of what he called “human surplus.” That is, human groups that have no “use,” and therefore are dealt with by marginalization, isolation, siege and displacement, through killing, intimidation and starvation if possible, in order to seize control of resources (land or what it contains) without …

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