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Gaza's territorial and demographic status is now a stated red line for the European Union.
A spokesperson for the bloc rejected any attempts to alter either, while expressing support for unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under Palestinian Authority governance. The case for that position is clear.
What complicates it is the absence of any visible mechanism to enforce it. The EU's formulation is specific in one important way.
By naming the Palestinian Authority as the preferred governing entity for a unified Gaza-West Bank, Brussels is taking a position on who governs the territory, not merely what the territory looks like on a map.
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