Comment by esjeon
UN Security Council Resolution 1566 outlines what is considered as terrorism:
"criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act."
If their purpose was really about scaring Hezbollah away, this attack can be labelled as terrorism. I'm pretty sure politicians have different ideas there.
Ah words hardly mean anything these days. It very clearly is terrorism but you won't ever hear any politician in the west calling it that.