The Season was mentioned by the Israeli right in the context of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, and parallels were also drawn between the Season and the Fatah–Hamas conflict in the Israeli occupied territories. Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan described in an interview the situation prior to the disengagement as one in which ""Arik Sharon will have to make a Ben-Gurion-like decision. He will not be able to go on juggling all the balls in the air. It's an Altalena situation...The government has to make it clear that it has cannons. And rifles. And that it is ready to use them...the security cabinet will be ready to make the same tough decision that Ben-Gurion made in the face of the Altalena"."