NBC/Rumble Late Decision to Shut Down YouTube: The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
Miami is where tonight’s GOP primary debate will take place. The Anti-Defamation League claims that antisemitic incidents have risen by over 400 percent since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last month.
The debate will be broadcasted on TV by NBC, but instead will be streamed on a website called Rumble which is home to an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center says is one of America’s most notorious white nationalists.
Fuentes’ YouTube account was terminated in 2020 as Google demonetized it, and he initially struggled to retain his audience on a number of other platforms, including DLive and his own Cozy.tv streaming service. Fuentes joined Rumble in March 2021, and he was initially critical of the platform’s failure to promote his videos. He claims that he was temporarily suspended from the platform in July after calling for a holy war against non-Christians. He claims that his channel is thriving less than four months later.
“I think the show is bigger than it’s been in a really long time,” Fuentes told his more than 40,000 viewers last week during one of his frequent livestreams on the platform. It’s crazy if you look at the viewers. Since I was on YouTube I haven’t gotten a lot of viewers, but I’ve been getting a lot of viewers since I was on Rumble.
Source: The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
Israel, the Dead Sea, and the Unites States: Why Israel is In Real Danger For Three Reasons – The New York Times
The leader of the Groyper movement is a white nationalist. He attended the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, has openly praised Hitler, and repeatedly denied the Holocaust. He’s also had dinner with Donald Trump.
People warned me before I came to Tel Aviv a few days ago that the Israel of Oct. 7 is an Israel that I’ve never been to before. They were right. It’s a place where Israelis have never lived before and where Israeli generals have never had to defend before, an ally that the Unites States has never had to defend.
How do a democracy live with that kind of threat? The demonic forces wanted to ask this question to every Israeli. They are not seeking a territorial compromise with the Jewish state. Their goal is to collapse the confidence of Israelis that their defense and intelligence services can protect them from surprise attacks across their borders — so Israelis will, first, move away from the border regions and then they will move out of the country altogether.
I visited a hotel on the Dead Sea to meet some of the people who were still alive. Over 130 people were killed and scores of others were injured in the area when it was hit by the Hamas onslaught. The Israeli government has moved most survivors of the kibbutz across the country to the Dead Sea, where they have started their own schools in the hotel ballroom.
If Israel is ready to engage in a wartime diplomatic initiative directed at the Palestinians in the West Bank, then President Biden will be able to support Israel, since he will have generated the support it needs.
The Israelis of Kiryat Shmona and the Hamas Regime: “We’re all safe,” a woman tells her
Kiryat Shmona is one of the most important Israeli towns on the border with Lebanon. That father said his family had fled the northern fence line with thousands of other Israeli families after the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia and Palestinian militias in southern Lebanon began lobbing rockets and artillery and making incursions in solidarity with Hamas.
When might they go back? They had no idea of what was going on. They take refuge with friends or in hotels across the country of nine million people, like over 200,000 other Israelis. And it has only taken a few weeks for Israelis to begin driving up real estate prices in seemingly safer central Israeli towns. For Hezbollah, that alone is mission accomplished, without even invading like Hamas. Along with Hamas, they are managing to shrink Israel.
I asked Liat if she would be able to go back to her hometown of Gaza in order to visit her son who is living there.
“The main thing for me to go back is to feel safe,” she said. Before this situation, I had a lot of trust in the army. Now I feel the trust is broken. I don’t want people to think that we are covering ourselves in walls and shelters all the time, and that there are people who can one day do this again. I really don’t know at this point what the solution is.”
Before Oct. 7, she and her neighbors thought the threat was rockets, she said, so they built safe rooms — but now that Hamas gunmen came over and burned parents and kids in their safe rooms, who knows what is safe? “The safe room is designed to make sure you’re safe from rockets not from another human who would kill you for who you are,” she said. She believes that it is dispiriting that Gazans who worked on the kibbutz gave Hamas maps of the layout.
A lot of Israelis listened to the recording published by The Times of Israel, of a Hamas man who killed a Jewish woman and called his parents.
“Look how many I killed with my own hands! He says that his son murdered Jews according to an English translation. “Mom, your son is a hero,” he later adds. The parents can be heard rejoicing.
This kind of chilling exuberance — Israel was built so that such a thing could never happen — explains the homemade sign I saw on a sidewalk while driving through the French Hill Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem the other day: “It’s either us or them.’’
The conflict has returned to its biblical and primordial roots. This seems to be a time of eyes for eyes and teeth for teeth. The morning-after policy thinking will have to wait for the mourning after.
Really? The number of people living in Israel is expected to reach 9.49 million by the end of the year, according to the Times of Israel. 7.928 million of them are Jewish, 1.99 million are Arab and 472,000 are not. The West Bank has a population of about 3 million, and the Gaza population is just over 2 million.
So, Netanyahu is saying that seven million Jews are going to indefinitely control the lives of five million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — while offering them no political horizon, nothing, by way of statehood one day on any demilitarized conditions.
After being slammed by the public for digitally stabbing his army and intelligence chiefs in the back in the middle of a war, Netanyahu published a new tweet. “I was wrong,” he wrote, adding that “the things I said following the press conference should not have been said, and I apologize for that. I fully support the heads of [Israel’s] security services.”
But the damage was done. Will the military leaders trust what Netanyahu will say if the campaign stalls? What real leader would behave that way at the start of a war of survival?
This society is so much better than its leader. It is too bad it took a war to drive that home. Brothers in Arms is a coalition of Israel’s special forces and reserve units that were formed to oppose Netanyahu’s judicial coup. The Brothers in Arms were the ones who organized help to get to the front before the incompetent government did.
It’s a remarkable story of grass-roots mobilization that showed how much solidarity is still buried in this place and could be unlocked by a different prime minister, one who was a uniter, not a divider. Or as Scherf put it to me: “When you go to the front, you are overwhelmed by the power of what we lost.”