[Fred Nerks]

http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm

Brief History of the Assyrians

by Peter BetBasoo, (author of the letter to Carly Fiorina.)

Racial Type
Assyrians are a Semitic peoples indigenous to Mesopotamia. They are Mediterranean Caucasoids, and are ethnically distinct from Arabs and Jews.

[lentulusgracchus]

Assyrians are a Semitic peoples indigenous to Mesopotamia.

I'll let your source fight it out with the Cambridge dons, who say different.

IF they are Semitic, and allow that they are, they can't be all that "distinct" from their Hebrew cousins.