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ICL, White Phosphorus and Gaza war crimes: A Follow-Up · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello, and welcome back to the podcast. I'm Dr. Russell Sharp,
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  and I recently did a podcast about ICL.
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  They manufacture fertilisers for sports turf, hydroponics, for horticulture
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  in general, and in agriculture.
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  And I said that they were involved in war crimes in Gaza through the supply
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  of white phosphorus to the Israeli military.
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  And Vincent Bruges, Managing Director of ICL, has been in contact to clarify and counter any claims.
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  And I did say, more than interested to debate and that you provide any information.
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  So I'll do a follow-up episode. And this is that follow-up episode.
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  So ICL fertilisers have been in touch.
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  Also known, if you didn't listen to the episode, they're previously known as
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  Israel Chemicals Limited, hence ICL.
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  So they were a company started in Israel and still heavily involved in Israel.
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  And yes, Vincent's points, he clarified that they don't actually manufacture white phosphorus.
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  There's certainly no evidence that they do this, and there's certainly no evidence
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  that they supply it directly to the Israeli military.
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  But the situation is far more nuanced than that, unfortunately.
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  And Vincent's fifth point was actually incorrect. So he's saying that my claim
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  was false, and they do not provide white phosphorus to the Israeli military or anyone else.
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  But there is a US Army document showing that ICL,
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  purchase white phosphorus and supply it to the US Army. They actually bizarrely
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  buy it off Monsanto, or Bayer as it's known now.
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  God knows why Bayer bought Monsanto, because they were up to all sorts of terrible PR stunts.
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  This is one of the least bizarre, terrible PR stunts that Monsanto were up to.
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  So I see I'll supply it to the US Army. And we know through the casings found
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  in Lebanon and elsewhere,
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  wherever Israel has been illegally using white phosphorus on civilian populations,
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  that the Israeli military are using American white phosphorus munitions.
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  So Monsanto manufacture it.
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  ICL buy it off Monsanto or Bayer as it is now, supply it to the US Army. U.S.
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  Army provides it to Israel, Israel drops it on Gaza and Lebanon.
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  So those are undoubted. So ICL are involved in this supply chain.
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  So I'm happy to clarify there is no evidence that ICL manufacture it.
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  And thanks to Vincent for spurring me on to find this and clarify it.
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  And a couple of other interesting topics that need to be aware of in my research
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  found that ICL sponsored battalion of the IDF, the Israel Defense Force,
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  the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion, also known as the Gadzar 585.
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  Now, if that's not true, let me know.
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  So they are involved funding the IDF, and so they're involved in that way,
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  in what's going on in Gaza.
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  And there is a video online of a member of the Gadzar 585 burning greenhouses
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  in Rafa to take really cool photos.
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  I'm pretty certain that's considered a war crime, burning down food production
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  for civilian populations.
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  And so not a good look for a fertilizer company.
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  A global fertiliser company with, you know, a mission statement such as ICLs
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  to be burning down greenhouses in Rafa.
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  So ICL is linked to the Gansar 585 Battalion, who have, there's a video of one
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  of their soldiers, or more than one of their soldiers, at least,
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  I don't know, how many soldiers does it take to burn down, at least one to film
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  it, and one to stand in front of it, making themselves look good.
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  So that was last year, they were filmed doing that. And then there's also the
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  fact that 15% of the ICL workforce in Israel serve in the Israeli military.
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  So that is a very high proportion, and ICL are linked to the Israeli military in that way.
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  If they would like to come back and counter that, if you work for ICL,
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  you've got to live with that fact that they supply white phosphorus to the US
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  military, who then supply it to the Israeli military, and that the,
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  profits from ICL fertilisers in some way goes to the Israeli military,
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  especially the Gadzar 585 battalion, who are burning down greenhouses.
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  So Vincent, let me know, and I'm more than happy to clarify.
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  I'll take down the other episodes because it is factually incorrect.
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  I did say they manufacture white phosphorus, and I haven't got evidence for
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  that. So yeah, happy to do that.
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  And as I say, I'm not taking sides in this conflict. I
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  think both sides are doing terrible things that are
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  horrendous and the use of white phosphorus and
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  the burning down of greenhouses is horrendous as
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  is getting on a bus and shooting a load of people innocent civilians dead
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  that's been hydroponics daily serial
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  killers grasp me up for today and hopefully
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  a more cheering episode next time unless vincent gets in touch and says i've
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  got something wrong again luckily with chat gpt i can research all the hebrew
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  websites and other areas of the website that you wouldn't normally get the web
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  that you wouldn't normally get to a google so thank you chat gpt for finding
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  that one all right until tomorrow thank you very much goodbye.