The first New York City Mayoral debate is perhaps a chance to flesh out responses to any crisis that exists in the City.
It’s a place of meeting for all types of creed and character. It produces its own problems and has taken in many more.
This is the forum for that sort of tricky interaction with difficult and often controversial topics.
However, Gaza simply isn’t one of them. An example is Andrew Cuomo, who has already been challenged over his visits to Mosque’s during his campaign.
He faced questioning about Gaza also, although the Strip is thousands of miles away.
In last nights debate he stuck to an obvious line about Hamas, and denouncing the infrastructure of hate that supports it.
This isn’t the point in New York politics, or America, but protests ship it in as if it’s a legitimate import and a product ready to sell.
The sadness is that candidates like Mamdani can’t see the irrelevance of so much activity over the investment of time needed in the City he lives in and seeks to govern.
