premise: But the gist of my friend's point was, look, , the Iranians are building a bomb to try and kill us all? <hypo>.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "I may not be presenting my friend's point fairly, but it tipped me off to the temptation, for Israelis, of invoking of the Iranian threat as a way to retreat from the exhausting, painful, perhaps impossible task of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"