Check the news - in fact the air strikes by Israel have continued to take place. Just because something gets announced to smooth things over in the media doesn't mean it actually happens.

But then misinformation is the name of the game here. The blitz on Lebanon is presented as having been a response to a wave of Hezbullah rockets, but that just wasn't the way it happened. In fact it was the other way round.

What triggered things off was a cross-border Hezbullah raid on June 12th in which two Israeli soldiers were captured and three killed. Five more Israeli soldiers were killed in the course of a counter-raid across the Labanese border.

The Israeli response the next day was to bomb Lebanon's International Airport in Beirut, and to carry out air strikes which killed about 40 Lebanese, including 10 members of one family and seven members of another. In reprisal Hezbollah fired rockets that killed two Israeli civilians.

And it went on from there, with each side escalating their attacks.

Aiming weaponry at civilian targets is clearly an atrocity and a war crime, and deserves the label "terrorism". But that applies whoever does it. And carrying out attacks against a ruthless and well armed enemy is stupid and irresponsible. But that applies to both sides as well.