Why, at a time when, according to Oxfam, "more women and children are killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year", should Israel suddenly care about the fate of Iranian women ? At a time when the entire world is aghast and nauseated at the Israeli savagery in Gaza and the rest of Palestine , and as the Israeli army – fully funded and equipped by the US, UK and Germany – is acting like a mad beast attacking Lebanon , Syria , and Yemen , with repeated provocations against Iran, why would Israel turn to Nafisi and how she assembled, as she claims, a few young Iranian women to read Vladimir Nabokov's pornographic novel with them?
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51