@Electronwarrior
1 The descendants of the Original Israelites spoke Aramaic and or Syriac which are often interchangeable language names
2 Israel had Syrian or Aramean Ancestry
3 The book of Daniel was partly written in Aramaic
4 A large number of Israelites living in Israel converted to Christianity
5 The Church of the East speaks Aramaic and Syriac and is in the middle east
6 Many Christian Israelites converted to Islam
Church of the East & some muslims are closer to the original Jews