The State Department finally stopped pretending to believe the fiction that the murderous part of the violent Palestinian group Hamas can somehow be separated from its "nonviolent" arms.

he United States on Friday designated al-Manar television -- the mouthpiece of Lebanon's Hizbollah anti-Israel guerrillas -- a terrorist organization, prompting an end to its U.S. satellite transmissions.

Lebanon's ambassador called the designation unacceptable censorship and an attack on freedom of speech.

Free speech? Censorship? Lebanon?

Pull the other one.