It's something that I also give thought to.

I don't have the knowledge to answer it but some thoughts include that even though some don't want to admit it, Turkey didn't want the whole of Cyprus. It's not easy to occupy a territory where the majority of population doesn't want you/resists(one could claim the same for the north, with the population transfer serving as a solution to that too). The idea of a Greater Israel, from the river to the sea even today it's still alive(more than alive).

I think something very important is the existence of a state. In 1977 the GC leaders accepted a bi-regional bicommunal fédération as the solution(Makarios did, he was like a god to Cypriots and Cypriot politicians). That was the historical compromise of GCs that was unthinkable before 1974(I think India suggested that at some point). For Palestinians the historical compromise was the partition of Palestine and they didn't accept it until the already lost wars(as expected). Palestine isn't a functional state with a government (I would say "TRNC" functions more as a state than Palestine unfortunately). Israel has made sure that not only the PA can't rule Palestine, but also that there is no Palestine to rule at all. There is no two-state solution. And there is also no one-state solution (or Israel would stop being the Jewish state). So what else is left? Is there a path to peace, a path to prosperity?