How times have changed

Being among the international elite is both significant and has a certain charm about it.

If someone were to have said that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was going to send a text message to Germany's Social Democratic Party leader Martin Schulz urging him to ignore his left wing and cooperate with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, they would be called mad.

If they were to add that Tsipras would embrace Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, they would be sent to see a psychiatrist. All these things have taken place and they are making foreign observers very happy.

However, large parts of the Greek population are angry again.

We were all wondering what had happened to all that accumulated rage due to the country's drastic impoverishment and the endless crisis. We wondered what magic wand Tsipras used to hypnotize the crowds.
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