Well, even if it is a new tax, which I don't dispute, I don't think it can be characterized as a «grab», which
suggests illegitimacy and greed, when the province faces an enormous deficit.
In particular, I think the attack on the Arab League peace initiative is bizarre and hopeless; I take the references to the «whole of Palestine» to again signal the refusal to recognise any status of the state of Israel; the concern to stress the
illegitimacy of the Palestinan authority too
suggests it is not simply Hamas but pro-traditionalist Hamas (when many observers believe there is an opportunity, with Hamas engaged in electoral politics, for it to drop the death to Israel position of its founding charter).