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Because he doesn't want to take initiative to do anything. If he says Israel can ride but at the same time doesn't punish organizers for excluding them then he hasn't truly picked sides and can try to ride out the storm doing nothing.
I don't know how important American money is to UCI. Maybe he will be forced to bend to Israel's will but so far it seems like UCI prefers to get involved as little as they can get away with.