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Israel’s police chief warned that hardline Jewish settlers could thwart next year’s Gaza pullout, as Jews who face being uprooted invoked the Holocaust by donning orange stars as a mark of protest.Palestinians meanwhile marked the end of a 40-day mourning period for their patriarch Yasser Arafat whose death, along with the Gaza pullout, has raised hopes of a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process. Speaking after settler leaders threatened a campaign of civil disobedience, national police chief Moshe Karadi said their tactics could threaten the implementation of a project which has already received parliamentary backing.Full Story