# Donald Neff > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Donald_Neff > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Donald_Neff.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Neff > Source revision: 1339401934 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American journalist (1930–2015)}} thumb|Donald Neff '''Donald Lloyd Neff''' (October 15, 1930 – May 10, 2015) was an American authorBaylis 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. and journalist. Born in [York, Pennsylvania](/source/York%2C_Pennsylvania), he spent 16 years employed by [''Time''](/source/Time_(magazine)), and was their bureau chief in [Israel](/source/Israel).[Alison Weir](/source/Alison_Weir_(journalist)), [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 He also worked for ''[The Washington Star](/source/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](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)'' in 1960 and became their Tokyo correspondent. ==Career== Neff joined [''Time''](/source/Time_(magazine)) magazine in 1965, and, based in Saigon, covered the Vietnam War for two years. He was then appointed ''Time''{{'}}s bureau chief in Houston,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](/source/The_Washington_Post)'', May 14, 2014. (where he covered the [Apollo Moon landing](/source/Apollo_program)). He worked as ''Time''{{'}}s Jerusalem bureau chiefLloyd 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 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.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](/source/Americans_for_Middle_East_Understanding) November–December 1995, Volume 28, Issue 5. Neff thereafter wrote mainly for ''[Middle East International](/source/Middle_East_International)'' and the ''[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs](/source/Washington_Report_on_Middle_East_Affairs)''. He authored several books, including a trilogy on the Arab–Israeli conflict. Neff died in [York, Pennsylvania](/source/York%2C_Pennsylvania) on May 10, 2015 of heart disease and diabetes, aged 84. His ''Warriors Against Israel'', according to [Archibald B. Roosevelt](/source/Archibald_B._Roosevelt), argued that [Henry Kissinger](/source/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. ==Awards== In 1980 he received the O.P.C.'s ''Mary Hemingway Award'' for best magazine reporting from abroad.{{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}} ==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](/source/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](/source/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 ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Neff, Donald}} Category:1930 births Category:2015 deaths Category:American male journalists Category:Los Angeles Times people Category:Time (magazine) people Category:People from York, Pennsylvania Category:Diabetes-related deaths --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Donald Neff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Neff) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Neff?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.