Don’t Stop Believin’ is now probably destined to be forever associated with The Sopranos but the song itself had established itself as a classic long before it was used in the finale of HBO’s famous show about the New Jersey mafia.
In fact, the song means so much to Journey’s Steve Perry that he was hesitant to give HBO permission to use the song until it was explained to him exactly how the song was going to be used and he was assured that it wouldn’t be played over any type of violence. Other than the members of the cast and the production crew, Steve Perry was one of the few people to know, in advance, how The Sopranos was going to end.
While Perry has said that the majority of the lyrics were inspired by his own early struggles to find success in the music industry, keyboardist Jonathan Cain says that the name was inspired by something that his father told him when Cain was thinking about leaving Hollywood and returning to Chicago. Cain’s father told him, ‘No, son. Stay the course. We have a vision. It’s gonna happen. Don’t stop believin’.”
As for the video, it was filmed in Houston and features Journey performing the song as a part of their Escape tour. With the exception of the infamous video for Separate Ways, Journey was known for keeping things simple and straight-forward when it came to their music videos. This one is no exception.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Arabs learn to lie cheat and steal straight from their mothers’ milk
Trump’s Gaza plan: A foreign force to finish the job
Arab and Muslim states are being courted to bankroll – and legitimize – a foreign force tasked with dismantling Palestinian resistance under the guise of peacekeeping. F.M. Shakil, The Cradle, DEC 23, 2025 Photo Credit: The Cradle As 2026 approaches, Washington is laying the groundwork for yet another intervention – once again wrapped in the … Continue readingTrump’s Gaza plan: A foreign force to finish the job
Peace and Justice Post
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The 7 October 2023 slaughter of 1200 to 1300 Israelis in one day and the jubilation of Gazans who stole and hid Israeli captives for 2 years, those horrific attacks utterly refute the ignorance of Israeli grace which the Sharon government in 2005 unilaterally withdrew from Gaza to award a Gaza Oslo Accord Palestinian state.
The revisionist history of this pro-Palestinian pie in the sky narishkeit barely acknowledges the 7 October attacks at all. Instead, it treats Hamas as a legitimate “resistance” movement and frames any attempt to disarm it as imperial aggression. It portrays the proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF) as a tool for U.S.–Israeli domination; the ISF is not peacekeeping but “outsourced occupation.” Arab and Muslim states are being pressured or bribed to participate. The real goal is eliminating Hamas and other armed groups.
It suggests that the U.S. and Israel are divided on tactics, not goals. Its propaganda claims that Israel wants total disarmament before any force enters Gaza. While the U.S. wants a phased approach to avoid regional backlash.
It frames Hamas’s disarmament as illegitimate unless a Palestinian state is created. The half-truth propaganda argues that Hamas should only consider disarmament if statehood is guaranteed. While it totally ignores the 2005 unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza! This propaganda: ignores the Oct7th massacre, ignores the hostages, ignores the sexual violence, ignores the indiscriminate killing of civilians, and then argues that Hamas deserves political concessions…
Inversely its one hand clapping noise declares: Hamas is “resistance,” not a terrorist organization. Israel is the sole aggressor. International intervention is inherently colonial. Palestinian armed groups are entitled to remain armed.
What the article doesn’t address: No acknowledgment of the Oct 7 atrocities. No mention of Israeli civilian suffering or hostage families. No recognition that Hamas embeds itself among civilians, creating humanitarian disasters. No discussion of Hamas’s charter, ideology, or long-term goals. No acknowledgment that many Palestinians themselves oppose Hamas.
This twisted Nazi like propaganda which erases or minimizes the 7 October 2023 massacre; ignores the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, and then argues Hamas and “resistance” are entitled to political rewards and international protection simply not an actual analysis — it is propaganda and revisionist history. Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the EU, U.S., UK, Canada, and others, and its founding charter and practice include armed struggle, rejection of Israel’s legitimacy, and systemic attacks on civilians.
This pro-Palestinian has the right to criticize Israeli policy, question U.S. strategy, or debate the wisdom of any future multinational force in Gaza. Those are all legitimate arguments. But when an article skips from “occupation” to “resistance” without passing through 7 October, treats Hamas as a misunderstood actor entitled to keep its weapons, and calls attempts to disarm it “colonial,” it is not seeking justice. It is rewriting history to reward the perpetrators of one of the worst massacres of Jews since the Holocaust.
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I see you spread your posts in other bloggers comments, too – even though they have nothing to do with the blogger’s post. You are pathetic.
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The Rise of a New Middle East. In 1948 post Shoah Jewry, compares to the mythical phoenix rising from the ashes.
At the heart of the Jewish State beats the pulse of Shabbat observance. Zionist Israel – a secular State. How to understand and correctly interpret the קידוש sanctification of Shabbat that forbids the types of work necessary to build the Mishkan — specifically מלאכה. Off the דרך Yeshiva institutions emphasize what Jews can’t do on Shabbat.
This tuma צר עין expressed by religious Orthodox Judaism rabbis has defined the cultural identity of g’lut Jewry following the Roman forced expulsion of Jews and the renaming of Judea unto Palestine by European aliens. Arabs cannot even pronounce the letter “P” as in Balestine! Arafat’s opportunistic propaganda declares the Balestinian people descended from the Philistine boat people who invaded Gaza from the Greek Islands. As if Arabs originated from ancient European civilizations.
The connection between מלאכה כנגד מלאכים. The shabbat קידוש by emphasizing איסר מלאכה therein defines עבודת השם on the 6 days of chol. This Torah commandment, עבודת השם, Jews dedicate their obedience to the Torah by sanctifying the חכמה של תורה – שנקרא מלאכה, throughout the 6 days of Chol. Shabbat serves as the logical דיוק which specifies the wisdom of the Torah throughout the Ages and generations.
On the day of Shabbat a person rests from doing the עבודת השם of מלאכה which creates מלאכים created through the מלאכה of טהור זמן גרמא מצוות. Shabbat as a time-oriented commandment dedicates not to sanctify time-oriented commandments on that one day of the week. Hence totally not relevant whether a person first squeezes the juice of a lemon onto sugar in a glass, and their after fills that glass with tea. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim), author of the Mishnah Berurah (1947), his commentary to the assimilated statute halachic code originally written by Yosef Karo – both men walked completely off the דרך.
The day of Shabbat Jews דוקא do not do the עבודת השם required to construct the Mishkan – establish a מקום קבוע for the Shekinah. Meaning, Jews do not do mitzvot which requires k’vanna on the time-oriented mitzva day of Shabbat. The logical דיוק instructs a powerful mussar. On this day Jews rests from sanctifying acts of מלאכה; to sanctify the dedication to do acts of tohor time-oriented commandments which require k’vanna on the 6 Days of Chol – the definition of the Torah commandment known as עבודת השם. During the 6 Days of Chol – like shabbat – Jews dedicate not to doing acts of theft, oppression, sexual perversion, and judicial injustice to our bnai brit allied Cohen people.
Shabbat as a day set apart from the שישה ימים של חול, serves primarily as a day of rest from creating מלאכים על ידי זמן גרמא מצוות. During these 6 days of “shabbat” (shabbat understood as inclusive of the entire week and not simply one day of that week.), Jews חכמה של תורה creates more “allies” on our side than the multitudes of Goyim enemies who seek another Shoah; like the Armies of Arabs in both the 1948 and 1967 Wars. Therefore, viewed from this perspective the mitzva of Shabbat simply crucial for spiritual rejuvenation. A purpose rest from doing time-oriented commandments with k’vanna, such that a Jew re-invigorates his dedication of doing עבודת השם time oriented commandment wisdom throughout the coming 6 days of Shabbat, based upon the Order of Creation of the Universe.
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