Who is being "ethnically cleansed from the area" CarolC?

The Palestinians, Teribus.

One thing Israel has ALWAYS said, "Stop attacking us, stop killing our civilians and the violence will end. Acknowledge our right to to live in peace and there shall be peace."

This is not true. Members of the Israeli government have made this statement many times, although even during times when Palestinians were not killing Israelis, Israel was still killing Palestinians. But many more have said that their practice is to incite violence against Israel in order to provide a pretext for driving all of the Palestinians out, and for enlarging Israeli territory into the surrounding countries.

However violence is not the only way the Israeli government accomplishes its goal of ethnic cleansing. The main, and most effective way is to make the lives of Palestinians so miserable, Palestinians will leave for lack of any other viable alternative. They do this by buldozing Palestinians' houses and orchards, dividing them up into tiny bantustans separated by settlements and access roads, severely interrupting their movements within the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and formerly in Gaza with the use of an arbitrary system of checkpoints (most of which accomplish nothing other than to harass and humiliate Palestinians), by separating farmers from their orchards and fields, harassing farmers who are trying to harvest their crops, confiscating most of the water supply in the West Bank, bombing and destroying all of the Palestinians' civil infrastructure, encouraging and financing the expansion of settlements and basically allowing (by virtue of almost never prosecuting) Israeli settlers to harass, bully, and even kill Palestinian civilians and farmers... the list goes on and on.

It is about time that the Palestinian leadership and their Arab neighbours gave that offer a chance, they never have in the past. One thing is for sure, the "Palestinian" people would greatly benefit from it.

Many of them would dearly love to, but Israel will not permit it.