Original sentence: House demolition in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a controversial tactic used by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) for counter-insurgency and other security purposes in the Israeli-occupied territories
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.House demolition in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a controversial tactic used by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) for counter-insurgency, security purposes, ethnic balancing and so on in the Israeli-occupied territories.Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions USA.Meir Margalit of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions writes: