In a September 12, 2021 article, Khalid bin Hamad Al-Malik, editor of the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, responds to the news that a new government has finally been established in Lebanon, headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati, after more than a year since the Beirut Port blast during which the country did not have a functioning government. Al-Malik writes that no hopes should be pinned on this government, for it is not likely to extricate Lebanon from its many problems, especially from the economic crisis that has brought the country to the point of collapse. He adds that this government, which was approved by Iran, will be just like its predecessors because it  perpetuates Iran's and Hizbullah's hegemony over the country.  Lebanon will not be able to revive, he argues, as long as it is controlled by Hizbullah and its allies: President Michel 'Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement, headed by his son-in-law Gebran Bassil. In response to Makati's call for the Arab countries to come to Lebanon's aid, Al-Malik states that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are not cash cows and will not help Lebanon as long as Hizbullah continues to control it and to act against them, especially against Saudi Arabia itself. He urges Mikati's government to return Lebanon to the fold of the Arab nation, and to bring an end to the Iranian interference in its affairs and to Hizbullah's control of the country.