Why did T.E. Lawrence oppose French control of Syria and Lebanon after World War I?

T.E. Lawrence opposed French control of Syria and Lebanon because he viewed it as a betrayal of the promises of independence made to Arab leaders during World War I.12

Lawrence had worked closely with the Hashemite leader Faisal to foster an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, operating under the understanding that the Arabs would receive independence in the territories they helped liberate. This commitment was undermined by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret wartime pact between Britain and France that divided the region into spheres of influence.234

Lawrence was deeply disillusioned by this Anglo-French duplicity, which he recognized as a cynical division of spoils that contradicted earlier pledges made to Hussein ibn Ali. Consequently, he lobbied unsuccessfully at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference against the detachment of Syria and Lebanon from the rest of the Arab countries as a French mandate.231