Lebanon and New Zealand. The U2 connection.

Cedars of Lebanon is a track on the new U2 album. Bloody brilliant album by the way. This track means Lebanon joins NZ as the second country to have a tree related song written about it by the world’s greatest rock band.
NZ got One Tree Hill, the tribute to a kiwi who worked for the band and died just before the Joshua Tree album came out. So the way I see it, this U2 tree connection brings our two countries together. We are like brother and sister. New Zealand can be the good-looking brother who is really good at sport and Lebanon can be the wild slightly slutty (in a good way) sister. We can go out and get drunk together. Not that Lebanese people need an excuse to get drunk as my Lebanese mate pointed out.
Maybe that’s why it seems like all Lebanese food was created by someone with a hangover. Incidentally you might not be aware that Shakespeare was Lebanese? My mate Habib told me. And if you don’t believe it the facts are on the interweb.
Other famous people Lebanon are trying to claim. The bloke who thought up the idea of sticking wheels on suitcases and the maker of cookies and cream ice cream.