The Egyptian leader took questions, the first from moderator Stuart Eizenstat, a senior State Department official under President Clinton who has worked on Holocaust reparations issues. The men are not working. Medicine, it is difficult to obtain it.
Food is difficult to obtain.
So the people are desperate. You could imagine that you are desperate, you cannot feed your children, you cannot send them to school because that school is closed. Mubarak invited representatives of the group to travel to the Middle East to meet with young people and convey a message of peace and reconciliation. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, said the gathering did not simply happen as a matter of course. He said at least two pro-Israeli organizations had lobbied against the gathering, which drew about 2,000 people.