This week’s edition of Friday Focus begins with an update on the fast evolving situation in Gaza. Will the latest round of high level hostage negotiations in Paris lead to a breakthrough? What are listeners to make of Netanyahu’s “day after” plan for the war? How is it possible to reconcile the increasingly contradictory approaches of the Israeli and U.S. government with regards to Palestinian demands for statehood? The program ends with a discussion of the implications of Russia putting nuclear weapons into space and how this represents a grave and new global threat.