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I'll give some more background too, explaining the reasons behind this:

Hafez Al-assad was the head guy of the far left faction of baathism (even though it's already a leftist ideology). If we compare Saddam Hussein to hitler, Assad was his Strasser.

It still remained anti jewish of course, as we can see and have seen quite a few times, but assad flirted with marxism extensively. The Syrian baathist party is just an arm of a big tent party in syria, National Progressive Front, which is essentially a united front. It's a mixture of baathists and communists. This was the beginning of hostilities. Baathism is a leftist ideology, but it was never friendly with marxism, despite being influenced by it. Saddam maintained this belief. Hafez did not.

Now, granted, syrian baathism remained anti jewish to a T, I cannot fault them for that. That being said, they completely abandoned arab nationalism and unity with Iraq (Egypt went full retard after the Yom Kippur war, they were a complete lost cause), made ties with Iran (an Israeli asset at the time) and essentially said "fuck you" to Iraq by doing so, and wussed the fuck out of the prospect of getting back at israel after the Yom Kippur war, when Iraq by the 1980s had an army that could have smashed Israel on its own, let alone with both countries allied (or, better yet, united). Iraq held onto the belief that they might be united one day until the late 80s when they changed the meaning of the stars in their flag.