There already is an independent palestinian state, and that state is Jordan. There is no room for yet another “statelet” shoe-horned between them, one that is guaranteed to be an outlaw territory ruled by outlaws.
There is similarly no room for an outlaw territory shoe-horned between Israel and Egypt. These territories are not viable as states, and never will be. The State Department is wasting year after year chasing something that will never be, and in the meantime innocents go on dying.
The only peace there is in the middle east is the peace that Israel enforces within its borders. It is a peace that must be defended every hour of every day.