غير أنها لا يمكن أن تكون مجدية ما لم يعالَج السبب الرئيسي للتدهور الاقتصادي، ألا وهو الاحتلال الإسرائيلي.
However, those efforts could not prevail as long as the main cause of economic deterioration was not addressed, namely the Israeli occupation, which was a temporary phenomenon whose impact would recede once the occupation ended.