When I look at this map, I see betrayal. Not of the Jews, as Israel likes to claim, but of the Arab peoples of the Middle East, and in particular those living to the west of the Jordan. 
Running across the map, cutting Syria off from Palestine and Transjordan, is the Sykes-Picot line. This represents Britain's betrayal of the promise of independence it made to the Arab peoples who, by rising up against their Ottoman overlords, helped the Allies win WW1.
And running north to south, dividing the Jordan river, is Churchill's extension of the Beirut-Aleppo line separating Lebanon from Syria. This represents Britain's denial of self-determination to the people living to the west of the Jordan while granting it to those living to the east, and the terrible lie that made this possible - a lie that the British government maintains to this day.
None of the states shown on this map existed at the end of World War 1. They were all created by the Western powers in the "dividing of the spoils" after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The McMahon Pledge of 1915 promised the people of the Levant independence. But instead, Britain and France carved up the Levant between them. None of the statelets they created were independent sovereign states. Iraq gained independence in 1932, but the rest had to wait until the 1940s.
Britain then compounded its crime by completely denying independence to the people living to the west of the Jordan and south of the Sykes-Picot line. It decided that they would live under British rule until sufficient Jews had immigrated to form a majority.
Britain made a promise to the people of the Levant that it had no right to make, because it did not control the land. And it made a promise to Zionists that it had no right to make, because it had already promised independence to the people living in that land.
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