I refer to the news report Serving Emirati food will be mandatory for Abu Dhabi hotels (May 16). This is an amazing idea. Food is part of culture. Inviting people to discover Emirati food is the best way to promote it.
Marion Boutemy-Deniau, France
You can cater to the western customer, but you need to share with them your own cuisines.
Isn’t that what people want – to experience the food of the country they are travelling to or living in?
Sara Smith, Dubai
Enforce new traffic rules
Who is going to monitor such drivers (Black points keep motorists in check, May 16)? After a few months, perhaps another set of rules will come. Consider the number of reckless drivers and the number of accidents caused during peak hours in congested areas. What is being done to ease traffic in those places?
Look at the number of buses, minivans and lorries on some roads. In certain places they seem to be more in number than private cars. These issues need to be fixed.
Mathew Litty, Dubai
It’s time to sanction Israel
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is open about Likud policy. It is to establish so-called “facts on the ground” to make the establishment of a Palestinian state impossible.
The illegal operation and political deceit is so obvious that it engenders anger in the minds of anyone who is connected with the issues involved.
That anger is against the Israeli government policy that authorises such criminal behaviour, but it is also a fact that this is a government voted into power by the Israeli electorate. There is also the well-known fact that millions of dollars are sent to the Israeli government every month by pro-Israel groups in the West.
This is in addition to billions of dollars voted by the US Congress.
And so the connection is made in the minds of all those interested in human and civil rights issues that here is a government, in Israel, that is intent on subverting the accepted definition of democracy and on continuing its policy of land theft and illegal occupation.
The time to impose economic sanctions on Israel is now. Failure to do so will endanger global peace and security for a generation, or more.
Anthony Bellchambers, UK
You can choose not to eat junk
Many Americans including me refuse to eat McDonald's and other fast food, because we know it is not real food, let alone healthy (Don't blame the West for junk food culture, May 9). Like other readers have stated, these fast-food franchises in this country are not owned by Americans or "westerners". If you want to make a change, divest.
Paris Miller, US
It’s all about choice and discipline. Fast food, cigarettes and bars are there for those who choose them. Visit a supermarket and you would find a deli outlet full of customers, while the salad stands are empty.
Jabulani Sifelani, Dubai