Barak ‘wins’ big in landslide election, albeit a mock one

The students are justifiably afraid of a Sharon government which could send them in uniform -- in a military operation -- to the outskirts of Beirut and Tehran, Barak headquarters suggested.

Sharon's headquarters responded that in 1996 Labor candidate Shimon Peres took the Blich elections. In fact, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was the winner in that year's national election.

In this year's actual election on Feb. 6, Sharon will win big, they said.

Political leaders from both the right and the left have noted in the past that the Blich results must be taken with a grain of salt, since the pupils do not represent the Arabs, haredim, kibbutzim and settlers -- sectors with major influence on the elections.