{{Short description|American journalist (1930–2015)}} thumb|Donald Neff '''Donald Lloyd Neff''' (October 15, 1930 – May 10, 2015) was an American author<ref>Baylis Thomas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6T_Ff6Ra57sC&pg=PA185 ''How Israel was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,''] Lexington Books 1999 p.195.</ref> and journalist. Born in York, Pennsylvania, he spent 16 years employed by ''Time'', and was their bureau chief in Israel.<ref>Alison Weir, [https://ifamericansknew.org/media/neff.html 'Donald Neff: a Journalist Erased From History for Reporting on Palestine,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005230914/https://ifamericansknew.org/media/neff.html |date=2024-10-05}} July 9, 2015</ref> He also worked for ''The Washington Star''.
Neff served in the army from 1948 until 1950. After college studies he became a journalist in 1954, and, after a number of positions, joined the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1960 and became their Tokyo correspondent.<ref name="Bernstein" />
==Career== Neff joined ''Time'' magazine in 1965, and, based in Saigon, covered the Vietnam War for two years. He was then appointed ''Time''{{'}}s bureau chief in Houston,<ref name="Bernstein" >Adam Bernstein,[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/donald-neff-foreign-correspondent-and-author-dies-at-84/2015/05/14/67aa9e4a-fa47-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html 'Donald Neff, foreign correspondent and author, dies at 84,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311052925/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/donald-neff-foreign-correspondent-and-author-dies-at-84/2015/05/14/67aa9e4a-fa47-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html |date=2016-03-11}} ''The Washington Post'', May 14, 2014.</ref> (where he covered the Apollo Moon landing). He worked as ''Time''{{'}}s Jerusalem bureau chief<ref>Lloyd Gardner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MjohBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT78 ''The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak''], Saqi 2011 p.78</ref> before leaving the magazine in 1979. He wrote a retrospective piece in 1995 detailing the change in his pro-Zionist perspective during his years as correspondent in the Middle East.<ref>Donald Neff, [http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/epiphany.html 'Epiphany at Beit Jala,'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710215748/http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/epiphany.html |date=2015-07-10}} The Link November–December 1995, Volume 28, Issue 5.</ref>
Neff thereafter wrote mainly for ''Middle East International'' and the ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs''. He authored several books, including a trilogy on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Neff died in York, Pennsylvania on May 10, 2015 of heart disease and diabetes, aged 84.
His ''Warriors Against Israel'', according to Archibald B. Roosevelt, argued that Henry Kissinger moved the United States from a role as neutral broker in the Middle East, to one in which it was a partner in a strong alliance with Israel.<ref name="Bernstein" />
==Awards== In 1980 he received the O.P.C.'s ''Mary Hemingway Award'' for best magazine reporting from abroad.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920854,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930103721/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920854,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 30, 2007 |magazine=Time |title=A Letter from the Publisher |date=1980-05-12 |accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref>
==Published work== *Donald Neff:'' Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East'', Simon And Schuster, New York, 1981. {{ISBN|978-0-671-41010-0}} *Donald Neff: ''Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East'', {{ISBN|978-0-671-45485-2}} Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. 1984. *Donald Neff: ''Warriors Against Israel: How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally'', 1988. Brattleboro [VT], {{ISBN|978-0-915597-59-8}} *Donald Neff: ''Fifty Years of Israel'', American Educational Trust, Paperback, 1998 (A collection of 54 articles he has published in the ''Washington Report'' over the past several year) *Donald Neff: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060909050545/http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/falnplrs.htm Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945]'', Institute for Palestine Studies, in Washington, DC, 1995 {{ISBN|978-0-88728-262-1}} (reprinted 2002) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101014125158/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919507,00.html West Bank Crackdown] ''Time'', Apr. 3, 1978 *{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/JordanTimes1995JordanEnglish/Apr%2010%201995%2C%20Jordan%20Times%2C%20%235889%2C%20Jordan%20%28en%29#page/n5/mode/2up|title=Clinton places U.S. policy at Israel's bidding|date=1995-04-10|journal=Jordan Times}} Reprinted from ''Middle East International'', 31 March 1995. *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0296/9602088.html Israel Lurks Behind Harsh U.S. Policy Aimed Against Iran], ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', February/March 1996, pp. 88, 91–92 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1096/9610087.htm Ex-Terrorist Shamir Becomes the Likud's New Leader of Israel] ''WRMEA'', October 1996, p. 87 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0697/9706070.htm U.S. Had to Wage Long Battle Against Israel's Technology Transfers to China] ''WRMEA'', June/July 1997, pp. 70–72 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0398/9803087.html Battle of Karameh Establishes Claim of Palestinian Statehood], ''WRMEA'', March 1998, pp. 87–88 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0498/9804078.html How George Shultz Became the Most Pro-Israel Secretary Of State], ''WRMEA'', April 1998, p. 78–79 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0598/9805080.html From Its Beginning, Israeli Policy Promoted War, Not Peace], ''WRMEA'', May/June 1998, pp. 80, 82 *[http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1098/9810083.html Sadat's Jerusalem Trip Begins Difficult Path of Egyptian-Israeli Peace], ''WRMEA'', October/November 1998, pp. 83–85 *[http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0699/9906087.html Jewish Terrorists Try to Assassinate Three Palestinian Mayors], ''WRMEA'', June 1999, pp. 87–88 *[http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2005/0505014.html An Updated List of Vetoes Cast by the United States to Shield Israel from Criticism by the U.N. Security Council], ''WRMEA'', May/June 2005, p. 14
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