Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday joined in accusing the recused International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan of manufacturing “war crimes” allegations against the Jewish state to deflect from claims of sex crimes made against him.

Echoing a May report by The Wall Street Journal , Netanyahu said Khan had initially planned to visit Israel and had praised its judiciary, but canceled his trip on the same day that he announced he would be seeking arrest warrants for the prime minister and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

“We were absolutely dumbfounded,” Netanyahu said. “We didn’t know what happened to make Khan suddenly change his mind.

Jerusalem discovered the “real reason” for the cancellation only months later, he said. A few days before Khan’s pl

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