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
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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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Why Jews view both the NT and Koran as av tuma avoda zara – a Torah abomination.
The Codex Sinaiticus is significant in biblical scholarship, but it does not explicitly include the Nicene Creed itself. However, its contents reflect early Christian theology, which aligns with the Nicene understanding of the Trinity. The Nicene Creed was formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea to address debates over the nature of Christ and the Trinity. It affirms the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The text within Codex Sinaiticus, including various New Testament writings (like Philippians), supports the core concepts of the Trinity as expressed in the Nicene Creed. Passages affirming the divinity and humanity of Christ—such as Philippians 2:5-11—align with Nicene teachings. The theological sentiments present in the manuscript reflect a developing understanding of beliefs that would be formalized in creeds like the Nicene.
Philippians 2:5-11 aligns with Nicene teachings which violate the First and Second Commandments of Sinai – a complex theological assertion. First Commandment: I am HaShem who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. The Nicene Creed makes absolutely no reference to the revelation of this first Commandment Divine Name. Translating the Divine Name into other words duplicates the Sin of the Golden calf wherein the mixed multitudes, which the Torah describes as people who had no fear of “Elohim”.
Why did the Torah refer to the very error of the mixed multitudes who translated the Spirit Name revelation – first Sinai commandment with the word “Elohim”. The Torah directly commands not to compare the revelation of the Spirit Name not to anything in the Earth, Heavens, or Seas –yet would permit word translations which ignore the revelation of the Sinai Divine Spirit which so horrified Israel that they thought they would die after hearing only the first two commandments; therefore Israel demanded from Moshe that he rise up upon Sinai and receive the rest of the Torah!
The Second Commandment does not say You shall not make for yourself an idol; as if avoda zarah – the Av tuma negative commandment of Sinai – limit itself to physical graven images. The T’NaCH defines the intent of the 2nd Sinai commandment to A) Do not follow the cultures and customs/practices of peoples who rejected the revelation at Sinai. B) Do not marry any man or woman of these alien foreign peoples who rejected the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Both the New Testament and Koran – no different than the worship of Baal. Only the 12 Tribes of Israel accepted the Sinai revelation. The revelation of this local god differs totally and completely from the Monotheistic theological creed creation of new Gods as expressed by both the authors of the New Testament and Koran.
Furthermore Philippians 2:5-11 likewise perverts the Torah mitzva of Moshiach unto some “Savior of death”, in accordance with the Apostle Paul’s perversion of the exile of Adam from the Garden (A major Torah theme likewise expressed in the stories of Noach, Israel in Egypt, and the 40 years in the Wilderness.), as the fall of all Man Kind condemned to eternal death till the NT theology of messiah created a new Universal God which defeats Satan and frees Man kind from the prison of Hell.
The theology of Monotheism, this creed subverts the revelation of the Divine Spirit Presence revealed in the First Sinai commandment. This Spirit not a word which Human lips can pronounce. Hence the theology of monotheism utterly and totally rejects the revelation of the Divine Spirit Name revealed in the first Sinai commandment. Furthermore, the theology creeds which pervert the 2nd Sinai commandment limited strictly and only to physical idols (a fundamental dispute which separates Catholic and Protestant theology to this very day), utterly ignores the Torah commandment as interpreted by the stories of King Shlomo’s foreign wives and Ezra’s commandment for Israel to divorce their foreign wives.
The First Commandment states, “I am HaShem your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” It focuses on HaShem’s identity and His relationship with Israel, rather than explicitly declaring monotheism as understood in later avoda zarah theological frameworks. HaShem judging the Egyptian gods implies that the existence of other deities reject the avoda zarah simplistic theology as defined by the established creeds of both religious belief systems. Torah defines the pursuit of judicial justice as FAITH, not believe in some Trinity or Allah as faith. This distinction highlights a relationship based on an oath brit alliance rather than a theological religious “covenant”. The Hebrew term brit does not correctly translate as “covenant”.
Implications for Worship: known as the mitzva of Avodat HaShem refers to doing time oriented commandments during the 6 days of the week and ceasing to do time oriented commandments on the day of Shabbat. Based upon the creation story of בראשית/Genesis. Neither the NT nor Koran accepted the revelation of the first two Sinai commandments; therefore both fraudulent religions reject the revelation of the Torah at Sinai.
The Xtian creed of Holy Spirit has no connection what so ever with the Divine Presence Spirit Name revealed in the first Sinai commandment. The koran replacement theology of Allah no different than the error of the Nicene creed Holy Spirit. Only Israel accepted the Torah at Sinai, HaShem by definition a local tribal god and not some grand Universal Monotheistic God as both Xtianity and Islam dictates. Peoples around the world throughout the span of Human history worship and believe in other Gods. To negate the existence of other Gods therefore constitutes as revisionist history.
Time oriented commandments express a Torah wisdom not bound by some child-like rote understanding which limits “time” as some linear event. Torah wisdom, such as required to build the Mishkan, herein serves as the strongest Torah common law precedent wherein the Torah itself defines time oriented commandments. Neither the NT nor Koran have the least bit of a clue concerning Torah wisdom as the definition of all time oriented Torah commandments. Therefore neither the NT nor Koran qualify as valid continuation of the Divine Revelation at Sinai which only Israel accepts to this very day.
Torah common law shares no common ground with av tuma NT & Koran theology/creed belief systems. A judge who hears a case before his court having strong “beliefs” pro or con concerning the details of the case argued before his court – righteousness demands that he recuse and excuse himself as a judge in that current case debated by both prosecutor and defense justices of the 3 man Torts common law court.
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