whatever you say about zionism or not, the israeli government are giving multi millions of sheklels at the moment to the kollel and a lot of kollel students are getting loads of tax breaks, if not for that the kollel infrastructure would have collapsed, so there is a huge hakarat hatov to the israeli population also for supporting the kollels,
It is hypocritical to call the israels evil and then take sooo much money off them! However Satmar should be respected for not being a hypocrite by refusing to take money off the governement and being totally self sufficient!!! I think all Litvish Kollels and yeshivas should refuse to take any governmental money for there schools or families if they at the same time are calling the Israeli society Evil – it is just purely hypocritical!!!