What if Middle East was still mostly colonies in 1948?

What if some or all of the Arab states of Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Iraq, and/or Egypt were still colonies/mandates/protectorates (basically under European control) by the time of the partition of Palestine? How would this affect the UN vote? The Israeli war of Independence? From what I know, a significant disadvantage for the Yishuv was that they couldn't officially buy arms from other states, since they weren't yet a state, while the Arab states could. Would the British and French empires get drawn into the war, or would they ensure it stayed relatively quiet? Would the British even decide to leave the Mandate?
 
Perhaps those colonies could unilaterally declare independence themselves.
Or it could lead to a bloodier repression in Palestine.

I see things going either way, but I can't imagine a scenario with an
independent Israel but a still colonised arab middle-east.
 
Lebanon could easily remain in Europe's orbit. The UK could even see itself tied down in Palestine to keep the peace (absent WWII, the ONLY way the Middle East remains under Europe's thumb in 1948). Every other nation is going to revolt. Iraq already was by the 1930s. I could see the mindset of the region going from anti-Israel in OTL to anti-Europe in this one with Soviet support (all that juicy oil). Throw in the fear of Communism and things are going to get REAL nasty.
 
There would be much of resistance against colonial powers so French and Brits would give up on 1950's and let them go.
 
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