Unfortunately, this foreign policy wizard didn’t bother to explain what “steps” Israel has taken to “undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has done that well enough by himself; he is now 88 years old and is in the eighteenth year of his four-year term as president. Then there are the Hamas top dogs Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashal, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, who have become billionaires by siphoning off aid money the witless Western left has sent to the Palestinians.
The “two state” approach will NEVER work, as the Arab insurgents have no intention of EVER accepting Israel as a viable entity in their eyes. There is not, and has not been anything remotely like “Palestine” since maybe the time of the Crusades, it is not an entity today, nor is anybody trying to bring it into reality. The Arab insurgents simply want to expropriate the existing real estate that constitutes the nation of Israel, and send all the Jewish people into the sea or exile elsewhere.
Not a solution in any scenario.