What I mean is that: they either use the Israeli New Shekel or Jordanian Dinar to process and conduct transactions due to them not having an official currency of their own that deems it Palestinian. Why don’t they have their own, since they are using someone else’s currency for daily purchases or transactions.

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    These days they don’t even get to have one intact building, and you’re wondering why they don’t have their own fiat currency? Consider the situation there the last 50 or so years and you’ll have your answer.

    Spoiler alert: when you’re under constant threat of bombardment and can’t keep basic, life saving infrastructure running due to said bombardment, deciding on a national currency isn’t high on your priority list.

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    Lots of vague answers in here…

    Annex IV of the Paris protocol aka Annex XXIV / V of the Oslo II accord strictly forbids them from doing so.

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    14 days ago

    Palestine’s statehood has been a contested thing for as long as it has existed. It’s never really had a “government”, so it doesn’t have an economy or a currency.

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    I’m not Palestinian, so of course take this with a grain of salt, but it just seems to make sense to me to use the currencies of the societies that your people are currently intertwined with, right?

    Would forming a new Palestinian currency have any positive impact right now when half the world would refuse to accept it on the basis of there not being a Palestinian state to back said currency?