Hirzallah

MEMORANDUM ***

Bashar Yousef Hirzallah, a native and citizen of Jordan, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, see Meza-Manay v. INS, 139 F.3d 759, 762 (9th Cir.1998), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Hirzallah failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).

Hirzallah failed to prove past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on the basis of being subject to Jordan’s military conscription requirement. See Gonzalez v. INS, 82 F.3d 903, 908 (9th Cir.1996) (stating that a general requirement of conscription does not constitute persecution).

Because Hirzallah failed to establish eligibility for asylum, it follows that he failed to satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Pedro-Mateo v. INS,…