of u.s. foreign policy at a special ceremony with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house a trump signed a proclamation recognizing israeli's israeli sovereignty of the go one heights which the rest of the international community still regards as illegal and as israeli occupied the move a major diplomatic victory for netanyahu just two weeks before elections in israel the israeli prime minister praised trump and called it a historic step israel sees the golan heights from syria during the sixty war back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven all right we want to dig into this a little bit more we want to cross over now to our very own helen the humphrey she is standing by in washington she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you helen of remind our international viewers if you would why this is such a big deal when an israeli leader first of all netanyahu when it comes to washington and you know was invited for a two day visit at the white house why is it such a big deal. brant it's always