GAW:
The choice of words, calling their anti-Zionism an A”Z, is poor and also offensive to the Torah, regardless of what practical solutions there are or are not.
As to meeting with Ben Gurion, who was and is a Zionist “idol”, the Brisker Rav refused to do so. The Chazon Ish did do so out of necessity. Even the Brisker Rav worked with a Chareidi MK to try to save whatever could be salvaged from the utter disaster of Zionist conquest of Eretz Yisrael.
Regardless, I believe you are very mistaken that today is functionally any different/better than 70 years ago. Zionist shmad is much worse (every kid forced to go into the IDF, to become “Israeli”, meaning to lose their Yahadus? At least, back then, they left alone the native chareidim who preceded the Zionists in the land); even worse hisgarus baUmos; the same Zionist ideology which is kefirah in kol haTorah kulah (and not “only” the three oaths) according to the Brisker Rav.
Rav Chaim Brisker said over 100 years ago that the goal of Zionism is shmad and a means to that end is a State. Not the other way around. This has not changed.
No, the concern is shmad, not money. If it were really all about money then they would treat the Chareidim no worse than they do their Israeli Arab citizens, and would not make the Chareidim serve in the IDF (which is not a “Jewish-oriented army” any more than any other deviance like Jews for J would be, in your view, “Jewish-oriented”).
More importantly, the Zionists should allow the Chareidim to work with full rights and privileges, as does any Israeli, even without any form of IDF service regardless of how long they learn full-time.
Then, once they compare the amounts they give Chareidi students to the amount they give to, say, secular college students, then the Zionists can talk about money. It’s not the money.
The Zionist shmad and discrimination against Chareidim is abhorrent.