Island deal signals warming Saudi – Israeli relations

Strait of Tiran (Wikipedia map)
Strait of Tiran (Wikipedia map)

The islands of Tiran and Sanafir are two tiny specks of land located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba. “These are very small, entirely uninhabited pieces of land. There’s absolutely nothing there,” Yitzhak Levanon, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt, said Wednesday in Jerusalem. And yet, the islands continue to make…