premise: But the gist of my friend's point was, look, why should we be expected to make sacrifices in this infuriating process with the corrupt Palestinian Authority and the Hamas crazies, when even if we could somehow reach a deal, 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"