Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for him to become mayor of New York City included a promise that he would arrest Bibi Netanyahu if he entered New York.

There are several interesting points to be made.

• The mayor has no power to arrest Bibi.
• During the campaign, few called him out about this piece of fiction.
• Also during the campaign, his supporters actively promoted this promise as a major reason for the undecided to vote for Mamdani.
• Why is the mayor of New York City focusing on issues beyond his purview, when he has a whole city’s problems to deal with?
• Why focus on Israel? Why not focus on, for example, the plight of Afghan women? (No jews, no news?)
• It’s stretching credibility to believe that Mamdani didn’t know the promise could never be fulfilled. What does that say about his integrity? (If he, against all the odds, hadn’t checked this out, what does that say about his competence?)

Now in the closing part of a dreadful anti-Israel rant, he admits that the promise was legally impossible. He refuses to say when he knew this.

Do people really think this kind of behavior is acceptable? Is this what politics has become?