Part of the intent behind the attack by Hamas was presumably to prevent normalization by inflaming ideological opposition, but normalization is still the pragmatic course of action. Israel is not a threat to Saudi Arabia and Iran is a common enemy. I’m not sure how to interpret the envoy’s remarks about an independent Palestinian state in this context, given that the current Israeli government is not open to that idea. I suspect that Mohammed bin Salman is privately more concerned about practical matters than about Palestinian statehood but he does not wish to openly pursue such an unpopular foreign policy.