The real question, of course, is how we could get cross about depicting dogs like this, but be perfectly happy to depict human teenagers in the same way? Week in, week out holiday docu-soaps show inebriated kids baring their tits, going into club loos for a shag, or boasting that tonight is the night that they’ll have their first threesome. This company – which seems to specialise in getting youngsters to pretend to fellate each other in front of beachfuls of bemused Germans – has previously sold itself with jokes about “package” holidays (“package”, for the less worldly among you, being a colloquialism for the entire male assemblage) But this time it may have gone too far What follows is a shagging dog story. Yesterday, if you were over 18 and went along to the local multiplex, you may have been one of the first to see the new and hotly controversial screen advertisement for Club 18-30. We are a strange, strange people and we are getting stranger. They deserve better than to be taught to hate those with whom they must one day learn to live.. And yet I know that even now, after everything, all you want is peace.I want to ask those who criticise Israel: who offered Palestinian children a future? Its neighbours who, from 1948 to 1967, controlled Gaza and the West Bank and kept the Palestinians in refugee camps so they could be used as pawns in the war against Israel? The Iranians when they sent guns instead of food? The only country to offer Palestinian children a future is Israel.I want to say to the Palestinians, your children deserve a future. Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians a state, the whole of Gaza, 97 per cent of the West Bank, and a capital in East Jerusalem in return for peace.No country could live with what you have lived with these past 20 months I weep at what you have had to suffer.

Israel, I am proud of what you did.All you ever sought was peace Menachem Begin gave up the whole of Sinai for peace Shimon Peres undertook the Oslo process to negotiate peace. A place, one tiny place on this vast earth, where after more afflication than any people has ever known Jewish children could live in peace. Instead it got on with the simple business of building a future for its children. It was brought into being after the worst crime of man against man after 2,000 years of exile and suffering Israel did not rage in anger against the world. We’ve come from all shades of the political spectrum, from all shades of the religious spectrum to say to our brothers and sisters in the country we love: “Israel, you are not alone.”Friends, let me tell you what Israel means to me.

This is an extraordinary gathering. Let’s make this rich language available to as many young scholars as can manage it Now, on three: “Puella, Puellam, Puellae…”. But that left-right alliance was over as soon as the National Front was defeated. The French left, sensibly, decided that the need to oppose the far right outweighed its desire to oppose Mr Chirac, and turned out in force to vote. His first-round score of less than 20 per cent of the vote is undoubtedly a more accurate gauge of his public standing than his 80 per cent score in the second. Mr Chirac’s unprecedented majority does not amount to an unprecedented mandate, either for himself or the brand of Gaullism he represents. Its appeal remains strictly limited.But before the French and their many friends abroad relax into complacency, it is important to separate what this French election of 2002 does and does not mean.