A campaign is being launched to support a bid for US President Donald Trump to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize...despite wars he promised to end still raging in Ukraine and Gaza. If the American leader, 78, scooped the gong he would join a pantheon of iconic figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malala Yousafzai and Nelson Mandela.

He would also become the fifth US president to receive the honour, after Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. Mr Carter received the prize after he left office. Since winning his second term in the White House, Trump has been dubbed by Vice-President JD Vance a "President of Peace" for his efforts to end the brutal war in Ukraine and solve the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

According to the European Jewish Press (EJP), Vadim Rabinovich, Founding Chairman of the European Jewish Parliament, has launched an initiative aimed at campaigning for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

During a meeting of the Executive Board of the organisation, which took place in Jerusalem last week, Mr Rabinovich told the EJP: "President Trump deserves it for his steadfast support for the Jews and Israel. Moreover no one has done more for peace in the world.

"We will do everything possible to promote this initiative via a campaign not only in the Jewish communities around Europe but also among non-Jews. We will push it forward in every possible way on the world agenda.

’’Because we believe that President Trump is doing so much to support the Jews in every corner. Look at what he did for Jewish students on university campuses, for the release of hostages and the protection of the State of Israel. It is important for the people he supports to recognise this."

It's reported Trump has long held a desire to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but that he believes the decision makers behind it would be unwilling to bestow the gong on him.

When he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House recently a reporter asked the US president whether he hoped to get the prize if he ends the war in Gaza.

"I deserve it, but they would never give it to me", he said.

Earlier this month Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Senior Member of the Judiciary Committee, nominated Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

He wrote: “Not since Ronald Reagan has an American president better represented the national resolve of peace through strength or the fundamental case for a world without war.

Congressman Issa wrote to the Norwegian Nobel Committee and urged that it give due consideration that President Trump is also the architect and principal inspiration for the 2019 Abraham Accords, a series of Middle East peace agreements in place in the region.