Outsiders Quotes
This absurd statement was made in the midst of the huge Black protests against the Apartheid regime. It was very similar to what the Southern racist, segregationist politicians of the American South used to say about the Southern Negroes who in their view were only unhappy when the “communist outsiders” talk to the them and incite them.
Asked why she wasn't interested in an appointment to government:
The penchant for Southern conservatives to always blame outsiders whenever there were local people demanding change or reform may have begun here. It reached its peak in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. There was however, a conscious effort of the Massachusetts Patriots to have descriptions of their revolutionary activities sent as newspaper articles throughout all the colonies quickly after the events. The Americans thus were able to frame all the issues, before the reports could get to London and the British thus got their viewpoints to the public weeks and months after the revolutionists did.
The early Zionists had an understanding of how they were then perceived by the Arabs who had been living in land that was to become Israel. Like most other parts of the world, the land of Israel has been conquered and reconquered over the years. The area had been a Jewish kingdom in the immediate centuries before the birth of Christ. They had conquered it from the tribes that had conquered it from the Egyptians who had also conquered it. Then the Romans conquered. After that there were Muslims, Christians, the Ottoman Empire, the British and finally Israel was formed. Throughout this entire history, both Arabs and Jews had lived on the land along with and under the authority of whoever was the latest conqueror. In the hundreds of years before the establishment of the state of Israel, the Arabs had been in the majority. The 20th century saw a large influx of Jews who immigrated, purchased land and settled. There had been low level conflict as the Arabs became concerned that with the immigration
