This month, Israeli political leaders announced a historic unity governing coalition — the most diverse ideological, political, and religious in the country’s history. Led by the centrist Yesh Atid party, in tandem with the firmly right-wing Yamina party, it draws on parties of Israeli Jews from the Left and the Right. But to secure its one-vote margin in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset, it will be joined for the first time by a party representing Israeli Arab Muslims. Politically, it is a marriage of convenience designed to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, but its reverberations are being heard from Gaza to Tehran and well beyond.

This unprecedented arrangement (which includes not just an Israeli Arab party for the first time, but also an Islamist party, in the tradition of Salafists such as al Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood) is deliberately choosing Israel, citizenship, and tolerance over rejectionism, incitement, and suicide bombing. The new Middle East is blooming inside Israel, too, and it is an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas, and those dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the death of Arab regimes choosing to pursue a future of peace.