keep this in mind: the people of Gaza voted for a party (Hamas) whose explicit goal is to destroy all Jews.
a democratic election is what produced that.
This is outside of the bounds of the research I’ve done so far, so forgive me if I’m wrong, but didn’t that election happen in 2006? Even though the #Hamas charter was violent then, I have heard that a) #Hamas started oppressing the people as soon as they took power and b) there hasn’t been an election since.
So I’m not sure if the peoples’ minds have changed since 2006, but even if they have, #Hamas might force the people to pretend to agree with them regardless.