John Edwin Mason: “I doubt that the people who made these photos and posted them on Instagram thought of them as a form of propaganda (at least, not primarily). But, to the extent that they humanize Israeli soldiers and remind westerners that they’re “like us,” they do the work of propaganda very well indeed.”
via The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012

John Edwin Mason: “I doubt that the people who made these photos and posted them on Instagram thought of them as a form of propaganda (at least, not primarily). But, to the extent that they humanize Israeli soldiers and remind westerners that they’re “like us,” they do the work of propaganda very well indeed.”

via The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012

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