De Rode Lijn was al overschreden in 1948. Of natuurlijk veel eerder al, vanaf het begin van de Zionistische overname van Palestina die gekenmerkt is door malafide, gewelddadige en terroristische praktijken die van meet af aan resulteerden de sociaal-economische marginalisatie en verdrijving van de inheemse bevolking..
Er is een veelheid aan academische literatuur te vinden die de geldigheid van deze bewering demonstreert.
Zie hiervoor bijv.:
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• James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East. A History, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press [2005] 2016 (232-238 inz.)
• Rashid Khalidi, “Palestinian Peasant Resistance to Zionism Before World War I”, in Edward W. Said & Christopher Hitchens, Blaming the Victims. Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Verso Books 1988, 207-233
• Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage. The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, Beacon Press [2006] 2007
• Nur Masalha, Expansion of the Palestinians. The Concept of «Transfer» in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948, Institute for Palestine Studies 1992
• Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Popular Resistance in Palestine, Pluto Press 2011
• Aida Asim Essaid, Zionism and Land Tenure in Mandate Palestine, Routledge 2014
• David Cronin, Balfour’s Shadow. A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel, Pluto Press 2017
• Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, Metropolitan Books 2020
• Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine. Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press 2021 (inz. de sectie over “The Pre-State Cycle”)
• Thomas Suárez, Palestine Hijacked. How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State From River to Sea, Olive Branch Press 2023
• Areej Sabagh-Khoury, Colonizing Palestine. The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba, Stanford University Press 2023