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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli minister with responsibility for the administration of the occupied West Bank drew condemnation on Monday after he said there was no Palestinian history or culture and no such thing as a Palestinian people. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who triggered global outrage earlier this month when he called for a Palestinian town to be “erased”, made the remarks on Sunday in a conference speech during a visit to France. “Is there a Palestinian history or culture? There is none,” he can be heard saying in footage of the speech shared widely on social media. “There i…