As one Israeli analyst noted last week, Danny Danon's appointment amounts to a "cruel joke" on the international community. The new envoy "lacks even the slightest level of finesse and subtlety required of a senior diplomat".Last year Netanyahu sacked Danon as deputy defence minister, describing him as too "irresponsible" even by the standards of Israel's usually anarchic politics. Danon had denounced the prime minister for "leftist feebleness" in his handling of Israel's attack on Gaza last summer.Danon is a UN official's worst nightmare. He is a vocal opponent of a two-state solution and has repeatedly called for the annexation of the West Bank.Back in 2011, days before the UN General Assembly was due to vote on Palestinian statehood, Danon dismissed the forum as irrelevant: "Even if there will be a vote [in favour], it will be a Facebook state."