Syria is anti Israel.
Obango will do all he can to make sure it stays that way.
Syria would be even more anti-Israeli under its Sunni majority than under the Alawite Assad family. (The Alawites are a Shi’ite sect that has a few Christian customs and often give their children Christian-sounding names: “Bashir” is the Arabic equivalent of Basil or Vassily. My guess is in the dim reaches of the past Alawites were crypt-Christians, but now they are just on odd sort of Shi’ite.)
I’m not sure why the folks at Foggy Bottom seem to have decided that Muslim Brotherhood governments would be a good thing for Egypt and Libya, but not for Syria, but on behalf of my fellow Orthodox Christians in Syria, I suppose I’m happy.
The Assads stay in power by treating all the religious minorities — their fellow Alawites, “orthodox” Sh’ites, Druze, and Christians (mostly Orthodox and Jacobite) — well, and ruthlessly suppressing majority the Sunnis. It’s partly for that reason that even while being hostile to U.S. interests in the area, they have been very cooperative with U.S. efforts against Al Qaeda (a Sunni movement, which would as soon kill Alawites as Christians or Jews).