Do Israel’s ascendant Arab parties — the Joint List and Ra’am — hold the key to a more peaceful Middle East or will they sow the seeds of Israel’s destruction? That’s one big question to emerge from Israel’s national election, the results of which were officially announced Friday, wherein an astounding 77.9 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot, a level of turnout of which America can only dream. The result from the first election held since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was, of course, complicated, as is often the case in a parliamentary system: The so-called pro-Netanyahu bloc or coalition — the group of parties broadly aligned with the current Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu — won 53 seats, while the anti-Netanyahu bloc won 48, with the Arab group winning 19. That was a reduction for the pro-Netanyahu bloc, which held 68 seats in the outgoing Knesset, but hardly a tidal wave of repudiation of President Donald Trump’s endorsee, given that Netanyahu leads the Likud party, which still won the highest number of votes. Now the question a