The article starts off with very valid criticisms of Hamas, but then proceeds to level a few at the Palestinians - criticisms for which the responsibility is misplaced and raise question to the article's thesis of a "geopolitical conflict without moral complications." There are reasons why Palestinians have "no roads, no industry, no courts, no civil society at all." And, they are not from a lack of trying on the part of Palestinians. The "flourishing greenhouses" require water, which is in short supply in Gaza.

Almost pathetic attempt by Krauthammer to clothe the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza with moral camouflage. Hamas has offered ten or twenty year truces to Israel (and even longer) but this is not mentioned by the writer, who is one of the most ardent neocon advocates in the business.