BS”D
No one is throwing true ahavas Yisroel away. But when there is rishus, one must speak out about it, not just passively accept it. You forget that Chabad is in the forefront of demonstrating every time the memsheles zadoin puts Jews in jeopardy. (I happen to disagree with demonstrations other than learning and saying tehillim in public because kol kol Yaakov and the moment you start with demonstrations you end up with yadayim and not kol).
Sadly, there are those in Chabad today who have no standards and are acting more and more like Carlebach freaks. Those are the ones whose Kool-Aid I don’t drink; they are superficial and understand little other than a few slogans and quotes. That is not ahavas yisroel, that is accepting everyone’s deviant behavior and diluting the message of Torah so as not to offend someone who is in any case offensive. Frankly, but for one thing that I can never accept, I am very drawn to Reb Aron of Satmar-KJ at this point. However, that one thing makes it impossible for me to be his Chossid.
Turkish laws are the laws of a foreign power, not an illegitimate Jewish government. If they had allowed Jews access to the mekoimois hakedoishim and I had been alive then and wanted to go, I would have obeyed them as I obeyed Turkish laws in Istanbul when I was there.
However, the secular government in EY is an abomination which defiles the Land, and as such I cannot support it in any way.
If ONE prime minister would stand up and say G-d gave us the land, I might feel differently. A Torah government won’t happen until Moshiach comes and I don’t expect that either. But the governments and the state are G-dless by definition.
As such, I cannot in any good conscience pay one agora of tax to that government, not that I even enjoy visiting there or do not have access to kivrei tzaddikim elsewhere. When I was last there and had an argument with the incompetent clerk who mishandled my VAT refund, I made it very clear that “I do not recognize your government and I do not pay taxes here”. Those few shekels of refund meant nothing to me and I don’t even know if it was credited to my card in the end. It was the principle.