The Avalon spouter who was upset at the Israeli police punching and kicking a 15-year-old probably never stopped to think what might have prompted those actions. Does he or she really think that they just grabbed some innocent bystander to pick on? I don't know all of the facts, nor does the spouter who is upset. I bet that spouter has no idea what it is like to live in an environment like Israel. It is possible to have sympathy for both the Israeli and Palestinian people, but it is very hard to justify what a 15-year-old American youth was doing in the midst of bomb and rock throwers.