Hold it right there. The Balfour Declaration was declared at the end of WWI, not WWII. Apparently you're unaware that the British essentially betrayed the Arabs by first creating a secret agreement in 1916 and then by Arthur Balfour's declaration the following year. I believe this is a subject covered by the film "A Dangerous Man", which covers T.E. Lawrence's life after his time in the middle east. I believe it's a film that's a lot less known then Lawrence of Arabia, but what happened then is perhaps just as important as what Lawrence did while playing an integral part in the Arab uprising in World War I. Wikipedia explains:
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During the First World War the Ottomans sided with the German Empire and the Central Powers. As a result, they were driven from much of the region by the British Empire during the dissolution phase of the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed]
Under the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916, it was envisioned that most of Palestine, when conquered from the Ottoman empire, would become an international zone not under direct French or British colonial control. Shortly thereafter, British foreign minister Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, which promised to establish a "Jewish national home" in Palestine,[524] but appeared to contradict the 1915–16 Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, which contained an undertaking to form a united Arab state in exchange for the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. McMahon's promises could have been seen by Arab nationalists as a pledge of immediate Arab independence, an undertaking violated by the region's subsequent partition into British and French League of Nations mandates under the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 1916, which became the real cornerstone of the geopolitics structuring the entire region.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine#Great_War_and_interregnum
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