can you imagine the reaction if an American boy was beaten by the police force of, say, Iran or Cuba?

"“And they hit me, and they kept hitting me and then I fell asleep and then I woke up in the hospital.”

That’s how Palestinian-American 15-year-old Tariq Abukhdeir described the savage videotaped beating he endured at the hands of Israeli police in eastern occupied Jerusalem last Thursday." The security council of the UN would have held a special meeting. (thanks Nikolai)