I read the positive things here on FR and that's what got me wondering. Anyway, I'm glad a lot of the Freepers told me he's anti-Israel. That answers a lot for me.
I used to like Charley, but that was before he retired from his old paper and reappeared as... something else.
on general topics not involving the middle east, or the iraq invasion, reese is often to the right of many of his detractors on FR. Prior to the intifada starting to appear in the news several years ago, 9 out of 10 reese articles were very well received, since almost none of the dealt with israel. If you go far back enough in the archives, you can see the transition.
Charley finds fault with israel in everything it does. He uses the reverse of his own arguements in criticizing israel. In only one article has he noted that suicide bombing is a bad thing, recently I think. Israel could commit mass suicide and he would find some way to criticize them yet.