António Costa: “What Netanyahu Has Done Is Unbearable, Germany Has Not Been Able to Remain Impassive”

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António Costa (Lisbon, 64) descends the stairs of the Teatro Real de Madrid and starts there a lively talk that will continue in a protocol room that looks bathed in red wine. Echoes are heard of the essays of Otello, Verdi’s opera based on a work by Shakespeare that condenses in a couple of hours all the emotional violence of the human soul: jealousy, betrayal, love and destruction. The temptation of the geopolitical metaphor: betrayal of the U…