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It's also a weird point to make even ignoring the well-observed dogwhistle. I doubt the Palestinians would back the Palestinian Authority either. Hamas came to power because that organization, and the PLO before, were not effective at protecting the interests of the people. Israel violated diplomatic agreements made with and encroached against the PA/PLO-led Palestine, so the people voted them out (plus or minus an intifada or two). The Palestinians old enough to remember the government before Hamas hardly hearken back to it as the good old days.

What comes next needs to be immense support of Palestine from Israel. Israel will need to pour support towards Gaza and the West Bank as though they were their own citizens. They need to provide huge short-term security and even huger and longer-term food and medical aid, along with sincere experts there to help Palestine rebuild both social and physical infrastructure. They will need to commit to that aid until Palestine becomes a functional, independent state. If they do not, there will just keep being another Hamas, continuing violence, endless retaliation... until there's no more Palestinians left to bomb.

The Bibi government won't do it, either. Israelis who want an end to the cycle of violence have a moral imperative to vote the religious fundamentalists out of their own state, or else they need to accept they are complicit with the religious fundamentalists running their neighbor's.