Most people, always and everywhere, are soft cocks, as long as they are not denied the opportunity to keep lying to themselves. The longer the history of bad government, the higher the rates of excuses and compliance (Egypt, India, China).
Would most Palestinians support a regime that wasn't loudly, outspokenly genocidal and allowed them to worry about normal problems instead?
The (colonialist, but parliamentary and democratic) Mandate of Palestine suggests the answer is in strongly in the affirmative.