When Islamic nations (including the recalcitrant Lebanon) accept Israel's right to exist in peace, then the wars for the Middle East will be over. Until then, pain is the lot of the civilian. War is Hell; to believe otherwise is hypocracy.

STOP the madness! Why besieging and destroying a whole country system? All it does is reinforce the legitimacy of alternatives to nacent democratic institutions. And unfortunately violence generates a cyclic violence and a spiral of hatred. Nobody wins! Stop the war now!
ABC, do your duty in helping inform the public AND our politicians. Join in decrying the atrocities of war. It is a crime to remain silent.

The issue is very simple, whether to stand idly by while Israel bombs hospitals and then blockades fuel for one of the few remaining functioning hospitals in Lebanon or take a stand against targeting civilians. Providing assistance to hospitals is so basic, that it is absurd to be arguing about it. Beyond that, what is needed is an immediate cease fire. Unless Israel plans to kill all 1.2 million Shia in Lebanon, it's continuing bombing of apartment buildings with attendant "collateral damage" - i.e. innocent civilians - will not eliminate Hizbollah. It will anger moderate muslims we desperately need as allies in the supposed " war on terror."

What is at stake in addition to the suffering of innocent women and children in Lebanon, is our moral values. The U.S. used to be seen a a beacon o hope and light. Now, around the world it is seen as giving the green light to another power to punish a whole country, under the guise of "self defense."

We announce we want to bring democracy and peace but we support violence and injustice under empty and hypocrytical political slogans of "freedom, democracy" and such. Where is the moral backbone of our leaders, of our people, who stand silently allowing the world to shake their heads in disbelief at our unwillingness to stop this madness.

Einstein said that peace cannot be achieved by violence but only through understanding. Bombs cannot understand, they can only kill and maim. When will we ever learn that?
When will Israel understand that it can only have peace when it stops occupying its neighbors, dismantles all settlements, abides by UN resolutions it ignores, and sits down to an honestly brokered peace.

Violence only begets more violence. That is an ancient saying, How arrogant and naive to say pain is the lot of the civilian.

Please see that the American public is imformed on this issue. It is important for the United States to take action now and release the oil to the hospital.

Please continue your focus on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon. There is no justification for depriving hospitals of electricity and not letting aid convoys through!!!

People are letting themselves be deceived about the war in Lebanon by reporting that is slanted against Israel. Israel is an innocent nation just trying to exist in peace and she is fighting against nations that have one thing in common - to wipe Israel off the map. Everyone seems to have so much sympathy for Lebanon, but forget all of the innocent Israeli's that have lost their lives to suicide bombers. Israel is just defending herself against the Hezbollah. If you want to beg the US to do something humanitarian, it would be to help Israel defend herself against terrorists and those that are set upon destroying that nation. Everyone would do well to read the Bible. It is very clear that God will reward those that love Israel and protect and defend her and will punish those who try to harm her.

Shirley

Israel is not only killing innocent people, but sick innocent people. Do you still call this self defense?? is this war reality??? It is definitely beyond any logical, ethical reality

This is beyond who is right and who is wrong. This is beyond politics, affiliations, and the so-called war on terror. This is about basic tenets of morality: by any standards, hospitals are not to be besieged. This hospital has served Lebanese of all religions throughout the civil war and no armed group has ever attempted to target it.

Please, ABC, give attention to this story. Help the legacy of the AUB Medical Center survive.

Please alert the public of this situation to put pressure where it needs to be put. Is responsible reporting another casualty of war?

When you look at how many Iraeli civilians have died and how many Lebanese, you realize that the world feels arabs are not worth as much as westerners or Israelis. Last I heard there were almost 1,000 dead lebanese and about 19 dead israeli civilians. Something is wrong with this picture.

Just as we've killed over 30,000 arabs when we lost 3,000 on that awful day on 9/11. If I was one that was killed on 9/11 I would have been horrified that so many people died in my name.

IT is very obvious in the USA< there is no freedom of talk AT ALL!!! THe news is covering one third of what is happening in Lebanon. Innocent people are being killed everyday for no reason! 1 million refugees lost their homes, no food, no power, no medication... Bombs are not letting UN help get to them! Lebanon is BLEEDING, it is DESTROYED!!!IF the fight is between 2 parties, it should be concentrated in specific areas, not in ALL the country! civilians are killed, more than 1000 in 3 weeks.
Please, ABC news, people should be more more exposed to the foreigh world. Truth should be told with no fear!!!! IF you call America is a country of freedom speech.

please let the fuel in. hope ceasefire will be soon anounced.
so all our problems will be solved.

We kindly ask ABC to give attention to this story. Please help the legacy of the AUB Medical Center survive.

This is so sad. All war is futile - in the end the medical supplies have to get through for humanitarian respect and the protagonists and their military suppliers on both sides have to sit and talk - cease fire NOW!!!!

"War is terrorism with a bigger budget."
Massacre certainly is.

This story needs to be told and quickly, time is running out, this is when journalism should make a difference, I hope ABC's morals are not swayed by any political pressure. Run the story on the nightly news!!!

We can all agree that getting fuel to the Beirut hospital is right thing to do. ABC reports that "Israel has granted a humanitarian corridor through its embargo of Lebanon for the purpose of transporting aid to the Lebanese." But there is no logic in calling for a unilateral cease-fire by Israel.

Who can honestly say that Israel is morally obligated to suffer hundreds or thousands of rocket attacks without acting to defend themselves? Hezbollah, not Israel, bears the largest responsibility for the loss of civilian life. They have comitted the war crimes of storing and firing rockets from civilian buildings and neihborhoods. Where is the international outrage at Hezbollah?

If Israel is to defend its own population then it must attack the rockets where ever they are. Hezbollah has shown itself to be made up of cowards who hide behind women and children. The leaders of Hezbollah (and their leash holders in Iran and Syria) deliberately brought about the fighting in Lebanon. They chose to sacrifice the lives of innocent women and children to promote their cause of stirring up hatred for Israel in hope of destroying Israel.

Please, let's not latch on to one piece of media frenzy and somehow conclude that this one issue is an opened eyed the real scope of a situation like Lebanon. Don't make short of the complexity of the damage to Lebanon and it's people. (I empathize with the people of Israel too, but this isn't about that)

The fact of the matter is, getting fuel to the hospitals and accomplishing that alone, will not return the lives of the surviving, non-partisan civilians to any sembelance of civilization in time to avoid the loss of many more lives of family members and friends of any age in the weeks to follow.

These people by the thousands are missing the basics like food and clean water and shelter and triage medical attention in the streets.
All of which if not tended to will make the death rate skyrocket even if another jet never flys across Lebanon.
Please don't lose track of this.
Hospitals have thrived without fuel since the study of medicine began. People on the other hand, with out basic life support never have been able to survive it.

I would like to point out how obsessed people are with the humanitarian disater. I agree no one likes to see people kileed for no reason but they should blame with the right people. This of course is witht fundamentalists. People are quick topoint a finger at Isreal today for a wrongful death but what about the centuries when the fundamentalist would not leave Isreal alone. This will not change in the future either. Her's a thought......its been 1000's of years ! Get over it! Isreal is staying! Its this racism in the name of religion that is the problem. Stop attacking the ISrealis and the problem will go away. Think about it!

Please run the story and help the hospital.

My co worker fathers is in the hospital and it will be in a higher hand in a couple of days as far as his fate and health. PLEASE help these helpless people...carol

The United States,the largest, most well funded, best armed and trained military in the history of mankind hasn't been able to reign in the Taliban in Afghanistan or the resistance in Iraq for several years now. Truth be known the US has never been able to even stop violent, gang related crime on their own streets! Israel, an equally formidable world military presence hasn't been able to reign in Hamas or Fatwa or Hezbollah for years either. Even their current dominance and demolition of Lebanon has had no effect to this end. In fact Hezbollah is more difiant and combative now than ever.
Yet The Israeli and US governments want a devastated Lebanon (whose military was never a match for Hezbollah in the first place) to reign in Hezbollah as a pre-condition to any remote hope of a cease fire or peace talks in order to end Israel's steady bombardment of non-military targets populated by and depended upon for civilian survival.
Why don't they just end the charde and demand that the Lebanese government touch the moon as a pre-requisit to a cease fire. That would be equally achievable...or not!
It is hardly the first time unreasonable and unrealistic demands were made to buy whatever time was needed to carry out an agenda unencumbered, while hiding behind claims that their opposition simply wasn't cooperative, although that "cooperation" was beyond anyone's ability to deliver it.
We've seen years of it just between Israel and the Palestinians within Israel's borders.
It's the oldest trick in the book.
By the way…how are things in Gaza these days?

this is not fair, well i guess life isn't fair but this is beyond unfairness, this is injustice, people want to live, and survive, so ABC please bring attention to this specific subject, it will help thousands, maybe more, uyou could help save lives!!!! It's not much to think about

Please run the story in your program and help to prevent this humanitarian disaster!

Israel's weaponry might 'win' by destroying Lebanon, but Israel is losing big time by showing the wold an ugly side many did not even imagine before this invasion. This war will backfire not only on them, but on Jews all around the world.

Personally, before Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped the soldiers I had a non partial, historically understanding ear to all sides...however since those actions, I am sick and tired of the whining that is coming from that part of the world...their problems are self induced...and now looking back at the history of Islam, its always been the m.o. for them to strike first, from their invasion of Southern Europe to this, if its not their whining about the Crusades, which was a reaction to their invasions, its their whining about this matter. TIME TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!!Hezbollah is holding all of Lebanon hostage, simply return the Israeli Soldiers, no one is asking for you to admit defeat, do it so your sick and wounded can live. If at all the US needs to learn a lesson from Israel military tactics, war is not a police action, war is about salting the Earth.

Humanitarian concerns for every person and people are right-minded, but irrelevant. History-laden lists of evidence and argument about who is more responsible than the other, who has claim to the righteous high-ground, and whose calling it is to prevail are each and all amusingly irrelevant. Citation of the international community's slowness in intervention and the worse-than-it-had-to-be outcome in other conflects are also irrelevant.

Extremists have declared the start of what historians will eventually call World War III. And there is no reasoned, morally pristene, and sanctimoneous response a civilization must allow itself in the face of a relentless mortal enemy intent on the destruction of Western Civilization as we know it. The fact that this particular set of extremists are Islamic is less important than having the most expansive context for understanding the challenges ahead of all nations.

Tactically speaking, Western Civiliztion will likely need all the available resources and more to maintain its very existance. Lebonese society was allowed a 20 year opportunity to return to peaceful civilization and, by popular vote, chose another path -- one of tolerance and coexistance with extremist powers. Western nations should not further invest its limited resources in a nation that has chosen its path and may now have regrets. Instead, Western nations should "keep its powder dry" for Round 2 of WWIII.