Original sentence: Destroying terror infrastructures such as bombs labs, headquarters and terror offices.Deterring an individual from conducting terror activities, by tagging it with a heavy price: the demolition of the family's house.House demolition was used to destroy the family homes of Saleh Abdel Rahim al-Souwi (perpetrator of the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre) and Yahya Ayyash (Hamas's chief bombmaker, known as "the engineer")
Edited sentence: "The thinking is that a national threat calls for a national response, invariably aggressive.A Jew building without a permit is ‘cocking a snook at the law’; a Palestinian doing the same is defying Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem.Accordingly, a Jewish house without a permit is an urban problem; but a Palestinian home without a permit is a strategic threat.But house demolitions were common before the onset of Hamas' suicide bombinging campaig.Destroying resistance infrastructures such as bombs labs, headquarters and offices.Deterring Palestinains from resisting Israeli occupation, by means of collective punishment against  their families.House demolition were used to destroy the homes of prominent suicide bombers such as Saleh Abdel Rahim al-Souwi (perpetrator of the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre) and Yahya Ayyash (Hamas's chief bombmaker, known as "the engineer").In fact an Israeli army report into their effectiveness in 2005  found that they were counterproductive.Meir Margalit of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions writes:.Such punishments are usually carried out on the orders of an Israeli officer without any trial and conviction.The supposed deterence effect of these demolitions has never been demonstrated in practice and has not stopped Palestinain resisitence