U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Sharm El Sheikh, on Monday.Evan Vucci/The Associated Press

Donald Trump’s peace accord in the Middle East is winning as much praise, if not more, than any foreign policy triumph by a U.S. president in decades.

It’s like Richard Nixon going to China or Jimmy Carter’s Camp David Accords. Ronald Reagan’s role in ending the Cold War comes to mind in terms of magnitude, but that was more Mikhail Gorbachev’s doing than Mr. Reagan’s.

Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Reagan was a showman. In Canada, we initially feared he was a warmonger, and there was good reason - such as the time he returned from a trip to Latin America - to be concerned about his policy depth. “You’d be surprised,” Mr. Reagan eyepoppingly observed. “They’re all individual countries.”

But Mr. Reagan became a peacemaker. And while there have been fears that Mr. Trump’s recklessness would lead to wars, he’s donned the mantle of peacemaker as well.

Much could go wrong with Mr. Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. But it would be churlish not to give him his due. Political enemies are........

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