If you only read the first 49 words of Mayor Mamdani’s statement marking the three-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, you might’ve thought you were witnessing another New York miracle — like the Knicks winning it all after 53 years without a title, or Captain Sully landing that plane on the Hudson. Here, after all, was the mayor, plainly stating the facts: 1,100 Israelis killed and 251 abducted in an attack that can only be called a horrific war crime. But the artist formerly known as Mr. Cardamom, it soon turned out, hasn’t really changed his tune since he...