jerusalem prime minister benjamin netanyahu said on thursday a usbrokered deal between israel and the united arab emirates represented a historic day for his countrythe agreement announced by us president donald trump broke new ground in israels outreach to gulf arab countries with a common fear of irans regional influencebut israels agreement according to white house officials to suspend de facto annexation of parts of the occupied west bank posed a measure of political risk at home for netanyahu who had pledged to carry out the stepi will make a special announcement at 8 pm 1700 gmt with more details about this historic day for the state of israel netanyahu wrote on twitterhis office had previously said he would hold a news conference at 1600 gmta senior israeli official said applying israeli sovereignty to areas of the west bank territory palestinians seek for a state along with gaza and east jerusalem was still on the agendabut the official said the trump administration asked us to temporarily suspend the sovereignty announcement so that the historic peace agreement with the uae can be implementedwatch netanyahu hails deal between israel and uae as historic