Lebanese basketball team: what a country

Ziad from Lebanon sent me this (I cite with his permission): "I read this in your blog. And just wanted to add to your information that the Lebanese team had imported a foreign player called "Jackson Vroman". He has never been to Lebanon, he has never played for any Lebanese team. They just went on looking for some tall and talented foreign player. They found him and gave him the Lebanese passport in order to be allowed into the Lebanese national team. The irony is that, in Lebanon, it is very easy to give a white foreigner male the Lebanese passport but it is not allowed for a Lebanese women to give her passport to her children when she is married to a foreigner. Really, what a country ...."