Bashar wasn't arming any group actively fighting Israel unlike Saddam. Saddam funded the PLO and Hamas. Bashar did neither. Bashar called Hamas an uninvited guest in a meeting with US Senators, saying he would kick them out if the US took sanctions off him, in 2010.
Syria's Assad seems to suggest backing for Hamas negotiable, leaked cables say
www.latimes.com
Bashar never fired a single bullet at Israel, Saddam was well known for Scudding Israel, its why they built their Ballistic Missile Air Defense in the first place.
Israel wanted Assad to stay rather than have HTS in Syria. It one the reasons they are frantically doing all sorts of BS in the south with the Druze and the various kinetic exchanges. Israel and Assad had an arrangement for decades.
Israeli officials reportedly tell the London Times: Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine
www.timesofisrael.com
Dan Halutz also skeptical about the prospects of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the near future
www.timesofisrael.com
Israelis wanted Saddam gone, Netanyahu testified in the US congress urging the overthrow of Saddam.
The same "necessary sacrifices for the anti zionist cause" stuff the Iranians don't apply when it comes to Saddam, but then feign it with Syria/Bashar, and accuse people opposed to Bashar as working for Zionists.
I don't think Iranians should talk about Syria and the "Anti Zionist fight" until "The Resistance" gets rid of the US in Iraq where they actually enjoy a Shia Majority govt with an Iranian friendly leader and all these Hezbollah Adjacent militias. If all that power and you still can't get the US to exit Iraq like it did in Afghanistan(something the Taliban actually managed with less resources), then whats the point of all this brovado about you will be the ones to get rid of the zionist entity and liberators of Al Aqsa and how you will banish the US from the regions. It doesn't add up, work on Iraq, and if you succeed there, then maybe people take the rest of your claims seriously.