Even Donald Trump’s harshest critics — among whom I count myself — have to concede that he has orchestrated a landmark deal in the Middle East that maximized American leverage.

Trump declared it the “end of an age of terror and death,” which is typically overblown and unlikely, given the region’s history.

But the explosion of joy, as families are reunited in Israel and in Gaza, suggests there will be resistance on both sides to a resumption of hostilities.

From a Canadian perspective, it has laid bare the flaws and failures in this country’s foreign policy establishment.

The move to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood was taken ostensibly because the Israeli government was, in the government’s view, “working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from bein

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