Donald Lloyd Neff (October 15, 1930 – May 10, 2015) was an American author and journalist. Born in
York, Pennsylvania
York ( Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Yarrick''), known as the White Rose City (after the symbol of the House of York), is the county seat of York County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the south-central region of the state. The populati ...
, he spent 16 years in service for ''
Time
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'', and was a former ''Time'' bureau chief in
Israel
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. He also worked for ''
The Washington Star
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''.
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
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'' in 1960 and became their Tokyo correspondent.
Career
Neff joined ''
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
'' 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 Bernstei]
'Donald Neff, foreign correspondent and author, dies at 84,'
''The Washington Post
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'' May 14, 2014. (where he covered the
Apollo Moon landing). He worked as Time magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief 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.
Neff thereafter wrote mainly for
Christopher Mayhew
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’s ''Middle East International'' and the ''
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'' (also known as ''The Washington Report'' and WRMEA) magazine, published eight times per year, focuses on "news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region". ''. He authored several books, including a trilogy on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Neff died in
York, Pennsylvania
York ( Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Yarrick''), known as the White Rose City (after the symbol of the House of York), is the county seat of York County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the south-central region of the state. The populati ...
on May 10, 2015 of heart disease and diabetes, aged 84.
His ''Warriors Against Israel,'' according to
Archibald B. Roosevelt argued that
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...
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.
Published work
*Donald Neff:'' Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America Into the Middle East'', Simon And Schuster, New York, 1981.
*Donald Neff: ''Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East'', Linden Press / Simon & Schuster. 1984.
*Donald Neff: ''Warriors Against Israel, How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally 1973'', 1988. Brattleboro
T The book is about How Israel won the battle to become America's ally in 1973.
*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:
Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945'
Institute for Palestine Studies
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, in Washington, DC, 1995 (reprinted 2002)
West Bank Crackdown''Time'', Apr. 3, 1978
*
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'' (also known as ''The Washington Report'' and WRMEA) magazine, published eight times per year, focuses on "news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region". , February/March 1996, pp. 88, 91–92
Ex-Terrorist Shamir Becomes the Likud's New Leader of IsraelWRMEA, October 1996, p. 87
WRMEA, June/July 1997, pp. 70–72
WRMEA, March 1998, pp. 87–88
WRMEA, April 1998, p. 78–79
WRMEA, May/June 1998, pp. 80, 82
WRMEA, October/November 1998, pp. 83–85
WRMEA, June 1999, pp. 87–88
WRMEA, May/June 2005, p. 14
References
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1930 births
2015 deaths
American male journalists
Los Angeles Times people
Time (magazine) people
People from York, Pennsylvania
Anti-Zionism in the United States
Deaths from diabetes