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.Geographers point out that the Palestinian houses demolished coincide with Israeli plans to build Jewish settlements.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.However, human rights groups counter that Israel seldom grants the Palestinian population such permits.Israel justifies many house demolitions by claiming that the houses were built "without permits".Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions USA.Meir Margalit of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions writes:.Sometimes the land of the homes demolished is paved as a road to link isolated Jewish settlements to Israel.Such demolitions are usually accompanied by confiscation of land and destruction of trees and crops